Newspaper Cuttings - WMcK [W McKean, secretary to the Public Health Department]

Scope and Content
Newspaper cuttings collected by or for W McKean. Some have been pasted on to sheets but most are loose. subjects are: electric incandescent lamp; edible oils and fats; the all-electric home; weather in Glasgow and Scotland; Scotland's changes in population; golden age of preventive medicine in America; UK food consumption; whether Hitler was mad, 1939; dangers of splitting the atom; eclipse of moon; basis of educational syllabus; opportunities in different colonies; farming; salary scales for Scottish teachers; coal conservation; conditions in Poor Law Institutions; typed record of wind directions at Springburn Park 1940-1945; how radar works; VJ day celebrations; war work of the Geological Survey; Glasgow's health; malaria treatment; multi-storey flats; training of nurses; replanning Glasgow; memorandum on hen farming with a letter to Dr Young at Bellefield Sanatorium on the economies of producing their own eggs; housing in Glasgow; idea of hospital cities with many services on one site, 1946. Includes three photographs of a visit by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother to a children's hospital with Lord Provost; group photograph with Sir Alexander MacGregor, a nurse and four other men; and two head and shoulder portraits of an unidentified man.
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Meteorology