HC Deb 13 November 1902 vol 114 c874
MR. WEIR

I beg to ask the Lord Advocate if he will state the number of children who are on the register of the piddle school at Tolsta, Island of Lewis, the period the school has been closed during the last six months, and the cause.

THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. A. GRAHAM MURRAY,) Buteshire

The number of pupils on the register of the public school at Tolsta at the end of the last school year was 196. The school was closed on the 3rd July by order of the Medical Officer of Health owing to au outbreak of typhoid fever. No notice of its being re-opened has been received. (13th November, 1902.)