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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