Letters, offers, reports, illustrations, and other papers of the burgh Cleansing and Sanitary Committee of Perth

• Reference:GB 252 PE/29/Bundle1
• Dates of Creation:1900-1902

• Scope and Content

  Includes:

  Letter from C Parker Stewart, Public Health Department, Perth to the “local authority of Perth” relating to a case of smallpox in Perth contracted by James A Donaldson a peddler, and the methods used to prevent the disease spreading, 27 January 1902.

  Offers to execute plumbing, masonry, slating and joinery work at the Public Convenience on the North Inch, 1902.

  Offers to supply oats to the council, 1902.

  Letter from George Middleton, Sanitary Association of Scotland, Glasgow to Anon, Perth relating to the 28th Annual Congress of the Association, to be held in Kirkcaldy in September, 27 March 1902.

  Offers to undertake construction work of a public convenience in Canal Street, 1902.

  Letter from F W Brookman, Honorary Secretary of the Association of Cleansing Superintendents, Rochdale to John Begg, Perth relating to the fact that the next annual meeting of the Association will be held in Edinburgh, 3 June 1902.

  Letter from R Henderson, Perth to the Lord Provost, magistrates and town council of Perth concerning the lack of “urinal accommodation” in the neighbourhood of 264 High Street and the fact that a local close is used causing a “simply disgusting” stench, 20 June 1902.

  Copy letters issued under the “Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892”, requiring the introduction of water into various households, 1900.

  Letter from Duncan Cumming, Perth to Bailie Grieve, Convener of Cleansing and Sanitary Committee, Perth concerning the lack of conveniences at Feus Wynd caused by the demolition of the old public toilets and the delay in construction of the proposed ones, 14 August 1902.

  Letter from G Bateman-Stewart, Local Government Board, Edinburgh to the clerk to the Sanitary Committee, Perth relating to the need for all parts to beware of cholera in view of a major outbreak in Egypt, 16 August 1902.

  Offers to supply an ambulance wagon, 1902.

  Extract from the Scots Pictorial, 25 June 1898, showing the new ambulance waggon adopted by the Caledonian Railway Ambulance Corps at Edinburgh.

  Poster advertising Peter Reid’s carriage works, Perth, n.d.

  Handbill illustrating various ambulances manufactured by W Holmes of Irvine, n. d.

  Introductions and conditions to be observed by the architect in preparing competitive plans for a proposed isolation hospital, 1902.

  Petition by the workers in the Cleansing Department of the burgh council to the Lord Provost, magistrates and town council of Perth concerning their desire to have the Wednesday holiday changed to a Saturday and also a general increase in wages, 1902.

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