| Description Of Item | Papers relating to 'Health Lectures for the People - Fifteenth Series No 3 - Milk as a vehicle for the spread of disease' by James Foulis. The slides are numbered. Slides are of: statistics of mortality rates for typhus, typhoid, diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever and measles 1880-1897 (no 1); returns of cases of scarlet fever and milk supplied from 12 dairies, February 1887 (no 2); incidence of cases developed in August (no 3); copy of an anonymised report by Henry Littlejohn on a farm infected with scarlet fever and the farmer's refutation of the accusation, December 1990 (no 4 - see also FOU/3/7/6); location of West End scarlet fever epidemic, December 1896 (no 5); extract from report of Inspector of byres and dairies on dairymen operating in Edinburgh, May 1895 (no 6); statistics for numbers of dairies (no 7); Foulis' design for sterilising cans (no 8); and map of Edinburgh showing the location of cases of scarlet fever (no 21). |