The history and circumstances of a peculiar outbreak of febrile disease in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Industrial School for Boys, Glasgow, March, 1888 / by James B. Russell ; with note on the clinical aspect of the disease by Samson Gemmell.
- Russell, James Burn, 1837-1904.
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The history and circumstances of a peculiar outbreak of febrile disease in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Industrial School for Boys, Glasgow, March, 1888 / by James B. Russell ; with note on the clinical aspect of the disease by Samson Gemmell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![shops, iu the midst of which is a graveyard, which was opened in 1839. Its extent is 5,333 square yards. In a printed Report on the Burial Grounds of Glasgow by the late Sanitary Inspector, dated 1875, he says :— Notwithstanding its recent erection, this cemetery is greatly overcrowded with bodies, and kept in a state of rank disorder. Orders for 390 interments were granted during A Boys' School, B Girls' School. the past six years. The common ground, containing the remains of many who died of cholera [in 1848], has been covered with earth to a depth of six feet, for the purpose of forming accommodation for new interments, some of which had been made before the Sheriff's restriction. This refers to the fact that the graveyard](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22299981_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
