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GLASGOW HERALD
4 OCTOBER 1897

MARRIAGE

GRAY – COWAN: At 57 Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, on the 1st instant, by the Rev. J. Drummond Taylor, Alexander Gray, London and Glasgow Engineering Company, to Barbara Wilson, daughter of James Cowan.
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GLASGOW HERALD
4 OCTOBER 1890

NORTHERN DISTRICT COUNTY COUNCIL

A meeting of the Northern District County Council was held in the Town Hall, Ardrossan, on Thursday. There was a large attendance. Mr. R. W. Knox, Moorpark, Kilbirnie, occupied the chair.

Bills issued by the Council with regard to the admission of roads in Skelmorlie and Saltcoats on the list of highways were brought before the meeting, and it was arranged to go on with the repair of Eglinton Place, Saltcoats.

A claim by Messrs Wilson & Mair, Stevenston, was heard as to damages sustained by them, and it was agreed to settle it for £13.
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5 OCTOBER 1891

FOOTBALL
SALTCOATS VICTORIA v. NEILSTON


Played at Saltcoats and resulted in favour of Neilston by 2 goals to 0.
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5 OCTOBER 1893

DEATH

BRYDEN: At Bruce Cottage, Saltcoats, on the 4th instant, aged 71 years, Catherine Fullarton, relict of William Bryden, of the Mission Coast Home.
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7 OCTOBER 1895

FOOTBALL
SALTCOATS VICTORIA v. IRVINE


At Saltcoats in the first round of the Ayrshire Cup, second game.

Result: - Victoria won by 4 goals to 0.
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7 OCTOBER 1895

BIRTH

MILLAR: At 64 Hamilton Street, Saltcoats, on the 5th instant, the wife of Alexander S. Millar; a son.
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8 OCTOBER 1894

FOOTBALL – AYRSHIRE CUP 1ST ROUND
SALTCOATS VICTORIA v. GALSTON


Played at Brewery Park, Saltcoats, before a large turnout of spectators.

In the first ten minutes Galston scored two goals. Victoria then pressed and scored their first goal and ten minutes later equalised. Galston then had a smart run and a corner was the result, but it came to nothing.

On resuming Victoria scored a third goal, followed by a fourth. At this time Logan of Victoria was injured and the game stopped for four minutes. On resuming Galston scored a third goal.

Ten minutes from the finish the spectators dissatisfied with the referee broke on to the field and the game abruptly stopped. The referee had to be escorted off the field.

Ten minutes later the game was started again, and Galston scored a fourth goal. Three minutes from the finish Victoria added a fifth point, and the game ended – Victoria, 5; Galston, 4.
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8 OCTOBER 1897

BIRTH

CHRISTIE: At 36 Springvale Place, Saltcoats, on the 7th instant, the wife of Mackenzie Christie; a daughter.
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9 OCTOBER 1890

ASSAULT

At Kilmarnock Sheriff Court yesterday OWEN RUSH, dealer, Manse Street, Saltcoats, pleaded guilty to having, in his own house, on the 7th instant, assaulted his son John, dynamite worker, by striking him on the head with an earthenware jug, thereby inflicting a severe wound.

He was fined in £3, the alternative of 30 days imprisonment.
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GLASGOW HERALD
10 OCTOBER 1892

FOOTBALL – AYRSHIRE CUP
SALTCOATS VICTORIA v. DALRY
At Saltcoats


A strong breeze was blowing. With the wind in their favour Dalry scored soon after the start. Afterwards play was more evenly divided and at half-time the score was equal – 2 goals each.

The score at the final was: - Victoria, 5 goals; Dalry, 3 goals.
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10 OCTOBER 1892

DEATH

BROWN: At 5 Stanley Road, Saltcoats, on the 8th instant, in her 58th year, Elizabeth Muir, widow of the late Alexander Brown, merchant.
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GLASGOW HERALD
10 OCTOBER 1894

THE SCARLET FEVER CASES AT SALTCOATS - SALTCOATS OFFICIALS EXONERATED

At the meeting of Saltcoats Commissioners on Monday night – Provost McIsaac presiding – the following report was read from Dr. Littlejohn, who had been sent to inquire into the subject: -

“As requested by the Board of Supervision, I have read the correspondence between the Local Authority of Glasgow and that of Saltcoats as to the alleged laxity on the part of the Saltcoats Local Authority in allowing patients suffering from infectious disease to return to their homes in Glasgow.

I have also visited Saltcoats, and had an interview with the clerk to the Local Authority, the medical officer of health, the sanitary inspector, and the medical attendant of the two cases mentioned in the correspondence.

With regard to the case of Black, the medical attendant informed me that the symptoms were so mild that after two visits his further attendance wad dispensed with and his bill paid. He never heard of the case again until the correspondence appeared in the newspapers, and he expressly stated that his opinion was never asked as to the removal of the patient. Indeed he considered his connection with the case to be at an end.

The case of Waddell, which was still milder, had I regret to say, a different history. After his second visit the child was apparently well and running about the lodgings, and the doctor was unfortunately led on the urgent request of the parents to give his consent as the medical attendant of the child, after certain sanitary precautions –such as inunction of carbolised oil – to return to Glasgow. He acknowledged his mistake, and from the publicity which has been given to the case it is most unlikely that it will ever occur again.

Of course, what the medical attendant should have done was peremptorily to refuse his sanction to the removal of the patient, and should the parents persist in repeating their determination to take him back to Glasgow at once to put himself in communication with the sanitary officials and throw upon them the responsibility of further proceedings.

As it was in neither of the cases was the attention of the Local Authority called to them and I cannot see that in the special circumstances any responsibility attaches to the Saltcoats officials.

In neither of the cases was a conveyance required to take the convalescents to the railway station, so owing to the silence of the medical attendant the Local Authority was entirely ignorant of the removal of the cases from Saltcoats.

A case like Black’s may occur any day in city, village, or watering place. Given a mild case – child able to run about, parents unwilling to incur the expense of continued medial attendance and the medical man settled with, and if this is done in such a manner as not to excite the doctor’s suspicion, the patient may be removed, and neither the medical man nor the Local Authority may be cognisant of the fact.

I allow that the inadvertence on the part of the medical attendant was inexcusable, but I fail to see that the Local Authority of Saltcoats was in any way responsible for the lamentable consequences that ensued. It is impossible for any Local Authority to keep a watch over the movements of certified cases of infectious disease and if the parents and medical men are so ignorant as to transgress the law as to the exposure of patients suffering from infectious disease, we must continue to trust to such energetic action as was manifested by Glasgow Local Authority. This action has been well advertised throughout Scotland and it must have exercised a salutary effect in educating not only the general public but also the medical profession as to their duty in similar circumstances.

So far as the correspondence is concerned, I venture to express the opinion that it would have been better if the Glasgow Local Authority had laid the facts of the cases in question, together with the action taken against the parent of one of them, before the Board, and left it to the Board to obtain full explanations from the Saltcoats Local Authority. These would have been communicated to the Glasgow Local Authority in due course, and all the risk of acrimonious correspondence would thus have been avoided.

I append two excellent bills which have been drawn up by the medical officer of health for the guidance of the public of Saltcoats when infectious disease appears in their families. One of these bills has special reference to the subject of the correspondence, and is calculated to be of great service in protecting communities from the risks alluded to above.

HENRY. D. LITTLEJOHM, M.D.,
EDINBURGH,
5 SEPTEMBER, 1894.


Provost McIsaac said it would be gratifying to all that the Board of Supervision had called for a special report by their medical officer, and that his report had so fully exonerated not only the Commissioners, but also the officials of the burgh of Saltcoats.

It was unfortunate that the authorities of the city of Glasgow had rushed rashly into print with the correspondence at the time they did so, as it was apt to create the impression that they had a right, as well as some cause to complain of the Saltcoats Commissioners or their officials.

What the Saltcoats Commissioners resented was that the Glasgow authorities should not only assume a right which had no existence, but that they should make their communication in a tenour and tone as if they had a right to do so, and as if there were sufficient grounds for doing so in the two cases which they specified. If they had awaited the result of their communication to the Board of Supervision, as they ought to have done, they would have been saved the publicity given to both of their mistakes. They requested the Saltcoats Commissioners to sit in judgment on the cases, to pronounce deliverance thereon, and to communicate it to them (the Glasgow authorities) and to this there was added the veiled threat of further proceedings. He need hardly say that neither the Commissioners nor the officials of the burgh of Saltcoats required either the threat or spur from any outside quarter in the discharge of any one or other of their onerous duties. They had always been alive to the value to a watering place like Saltcoats of having the repute for being in advance in regard to public health and sanitation. It was well known that some years ago Dr. Littlejohn had reported to the Board of Supervision in these words: -

“I found the town of Saltcoats in an excellent sanitary state. No Scottish town that I have visited shows so much creditable sanitary improvement. The drainage is complete, the paving is excellent.

I cannot conclude without bringing the conduct of the Local Authority of the Parish of Ardrossan (Saltcoats) under the favourable consideration of the Board of Supervision.”

He (the Provost) was happy to think that the reputation which Saltcoats then had under the Parochial Board as Local Authority it had maintained ever since, and he might safely predict that it would not be the fault of either the Commissioners or officials if it did not maintain it in the future.

The publication of the correspondence would notwithstanding have some advantages. It would inform the public of the danger and the consequences of removing infected persons from place to place without taking proper precautions. It would show the need of communication between Local Authorities, and it would show these authorities and their officials that more will he gained by cordial co-operation than by assuming an authority which does not exist.
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