Saltcoats - On This Day In History

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 NOVEMBER 1906

SALTCOATS TOWN COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS

Bailie Donaldson was elected Provost. Councillors A. S. Millar and John Christie were elected bailies; Councillor McKirdy a representative to Irvine and District Water Board; and Councillor Hugh Thomson to the Education Committee of the County Council.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 NOVEMBER 1909

CONDITION OF SALTCOATS BREAKWATER

Saltcoats Town Council on Monday had before them a letter from the Glasgow & South-Western Railway Company regarding the dangerous state of the breakwater at the east shore.

The Council had recommended the railway company to extend the embankment so as to make a more gradual slope to the sea. The company’s engineer had reported to the manager that it was impracticable to extend the tail of the embankment, and, owing to the action of the tide, the drop could not be avoided.

It was resolved that the Shores Committee and the burgh surveyor should meet on the ground and inspect the embankment.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 NOVEMBER 1910

MR WEDGWOOD, M.P. - AT SALTCOATS

Mr J. C. Wedgwood, M.P., last night addressed a largely attended meeting in the Town Hall, Saltcoats. Councillor Fulton presided.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 NOVEMBER 1902

DEATH - OGILVIE

At Airlie Cottage, Saltcoats, on 9th November, Margaret Knox Ogilvie.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 NOVEMBER 1903

REMOVAL OF INFECTED ARTICLES FOR DISINFECTING

At a meeting of Saltcoats Town Council – Provost Guthrie residing – the Hospital Committee recommended that a suitable van be obtained for the removal of infected articles for disinfecting at the hospital.

The adoption of the recommendation was moved by Judge Miller, and seconded by Councillor Bogle. Councillor Arnott moved, and Councillor Whyte seconded, an amendment for delay, and that a return be obtained showing the expenses incurred through the removal, disinfecting, and destruction of infected articles since the hospital was built.

On a division, the motion was carried by 5 to 3.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 NOVEMBER 1904

DEATH - KIRKPATRICK

At 9 Eglinton Street, Saltcoats, on 10th instant, Annie Marr, beloved wife of James Kirkpatrick.

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GLASGOW HERALD
10 NOVEMBER 1905

DEATH - HOGG

At the Royal Hotel, Saltcoats, on the 8th instant, James Hogg, M.D., late of Blackburn, in his 48th year.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 NOVEMBER 1905

MUNICIPAL APPOINTMENTS - SALTCOATS

At a meeting of Saltcoats Town Council yesterday, Councillor John Ross was elected Junior Bailie. The committees and tradesmen were then appointed for the ensuing year. Bailie Donaldson and Councillor Alexander S. Millar were elected to fill the vacancies in the Irvine and District Water Board.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 NOVEMBER 1908

MARRIAGE – GRANT and KERR

At Station Hotel, Saltcoats, on 10th November, by Rev. Mr Greenhill, John C. Grant, chief engineer’s office, Caledonian Railway, to Mary Gardner, daughter of Mrs Kerr, Station Buildings, Saltcoats.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 NOVEMBER 1908

MUNICIPAL APPOINTMENT - SALTCOATS

At a meeting of Saltcoats Town Council – Bailie Christie presiding – Dr. Lauder Thomson, Ayr, was unanimously appointed assist medical officer for the burgh. His duties include the examination of phthisis patients applying for admission into Glenafton Sanatorium.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 NOVEMBER 1910

THE ENTERIC FEVER OUTBREAK IN AYRSHIRE – SALTCOATS AND STEVENSTON

At a meeting of the Northern District Committee of Ayrshire County Council at Kilwinning yesterday – Mr W. D. Russell in the chair – reference was made to the outbreak of enteric fever at Saltcoats and Stevenston, which is now reported to be subsiding.

Special reports were submitted from Dr. MacDonald, the county medical officer, and Mr Andrew, sanitary inspector.

According to the medical officer’s report, a farmer in the parish of Ardrossan was notified to be suffering from the disease, and he was removed to the hospital, and the premises disinfected. The farm and people there were inspected, and as nothing of a suspicious nature existed after the removal and disinfection the sale of the milk was allowed to continue.

The water supply was analysed and found to be pure, and there was nothing in the drainage or other sanitary conditions that could be suggested as the cause of the fever. It was therefore impossible to determine the exact source of the disease.

On October 22, the report continues, several cases of enteric fever were reported in Saltcoats, and since that date a considerable number have been notified – in all over 80 cases having occurred in Saltcoats – while 25 cases were notified from Stevenston, and with one or two exceptions all the cases had their milk supply partly or wholly from that farm either direct or from a dairy.

On the 23rd ultimo the farmer voluntarily stopped his milk supply.

A letter was read from Mr E. Isherwood, Stevenston, making several suggestions for combatting the outbreak and offering to assist. Dr. MacDonald stated that the suggestions were excellent, but he was glad to say the outbreak was practically over, although there might be a few secondary patients.

Mr Willison, the convener of the Public Health Committee, said the outbreak had been arrested, and they had arranged for further accommodation in the event of there being any more cases.

Dr. MacDonald had very wisely got a Local Government Board official to visit the district and make a report. That official generally approved of what had been done to stop the outbreak, and the worst was past.

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GLASGOW HERALD
11 NOVEMBER 1913

DEATH - KAY

At Hayfield, Saltcoats, on 9th November, Jane Kay, L.L.A., late headmistress St. Leonard’s Infants’ School, Dunfermline.

[A Lady Literate in Arts (LLA) qualification was offered by the University of St Andrews in Scotland for more than a decade before women were allowed to graduate in the same way as men, and it became popular as a kind of external degree for women who had studied through correspondence, or by attendance at non-university.]