| Description Of Item | Addressed to D M Moir. He writes that his colleagues in the Edinburgh Board of Health would like more information on whether people living outside towns where cholera was present were infected when they travelled into the town even though they did not visit the houses of the infected. He feels that an answer to the question would settle the question of contagion. He asks that Moir send a list of farmers and proprietors within two miles of Musselburgh so the Board can send them circulars. He also asks about the case of a fishwoman named Rachel Anderson died of cholera and whether she died in order to clarify the question of whether she was infected by someone who was not themselves ill. The envelope accompanying the letter has notes by Moir on the case. |