Island of Lewis—Fever Outbreak at Tolsta.

HC Deb 05 December 1902 vol 116 c127

MR. WEIR () Ross and Cromarty

To ask the Lord Advocate if he will state whether any steps have been taken to ascertain the cause of the epidemic of typhus and typhoid fever at Tolsta, Island of Lewis.

(Answered by Mr. A. Graham Murray.) The Local Government Board inform me that, in the opinion of the local medical officer, the disease was imported by the Militia Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders from Egypt.