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Notes from Newport Town Council Minutes

These are not full transcripts of the Minutes. They are my own notes.

1901-02       (November 1901 - November 1902)       Source: Newport-on-Tay Council Minutes, B79-1-1D

Kerbing - some owners consider their kerbing is satisfactory.
Burgh of Newport constituted 1887, boundaries first extended 1890 and again in 1902.
Certain private gas lamps throughout the burgh.
October 1902. Wormit at present without any public lighting; some considerable time before the gas mains etc. can be laid. Wormit must be lit in the meantime.
The whole council will have to retire because of the wards having been created. Polling for wards 1 & 2 in Blyth Hall, for ward 3 at Stewart's Hall.
September 16th. Epidemic of enteritic fever. Is milk supply the cause? All drink the same milk. Mathewson's dairy - milk is OK. Or is the cause a well in a field above Craighead Farm, 9 feet deep, for animals, used by Mathewson?
Lighting of Wormit: offer from Mr Stewart to light with electric and oil lamps. Town Council - considering how much gas pipe is laid, don't want to use electric lights, but go ahead with oil lamps.
Enteritic fever: well water is OK (actually is exceptionally good). Victims: Mrs Bissett, 44, Riverside, West Newport; Kate Pettitt, 22, c/o Farquharson, Tayside, Cupar Road; William McMillan, 25, Poplar House; John Taylor, 18, Royal Hotel; Thomas Millar, 12, Yellow Castle; William Mathewson jun., Craighead. What about the drains? Bissett has no WC, but sink is trapped. Poplar & Tayside are OK. Yellow Castle has outside WC. Mathewson junior, Craighead - he must be isolated or milk supply stopped. Death of Thomas Millar, Yellow Castle.
Enteritic fever: Vacate Craighead Farmhouse except for patient and nurse (Margaret Gorrie and servant Sarah Wood). Don't stop milk supply. Scald milk cans.
Lighting at Wormit: Mr Stewart wouldn't agree.

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