| Description Of Item | From the collection of William Pulteney Alison. Gregory had not received a reply to his letter and asks whether the notice of the rules and regulations relating to cholera published in the 'London Gazette' could be taken as an answer. He also asks if the board is in possession of the evidence lately published on the contagious nature of cholera and whether the board has concluded that the disease spreads epidemically as well as by contagion. He also believes that under Scottish law Scottish local authorities are able to take their own more decisive measures and tells the board that an Edinburgh Board of Health had been formed. |