Donald George Sutherland
Reference and contact details:
GB 0254 MS 76
Title:
Donald George Sutherland
Dates of creation:
1887-1905
Held at:
Dundee University Archives
Extent:
1 folder (0.05 linear metres).
The records are on paper.
Name of Creator:
Donald George Sutherland
Level of Description: fonds
Creation Information:
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Modified at:
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Note
Fonds level description compiled by Sarah Chubb, Archives Hub Project Archivist, January 2002.
Language of Material: eng
Administrative/Biographical History
Donald George Sutherland was educated at Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1886 with the university medal in medical jurisprudence and public health, and taking the BSc in public health three years later. In 1890 Dr Sutherland became Medical Officer of Health for the county of Sutherland and Burgh of Dornoch. He was later called to the Bar by the Middle Temple and, in 1899, entered as an advanced research student at St John's College, Cambridge, receiving the degrees BA (1901) and MA (1908) of that university. After a period as assistant bacteriologist in the Local Government Board Laboratories he was appointed Senior Bacteriologist to the Metropolitan Water Board in 1905.
He wrote a succession of nine Sanitary Reports on the County of Sutherland and a dissertation
On Certain Spore-Bearing Anaerobic Considered as Criteria in the Bacterial Examination of Water Supplies
.
Scope and Content
Personal and family correspondence and papers 1889-1900; testimonials 1887-1900; correspondence relating to his work as Medical Officer of Health for Sutherland 1890-1904; correspondence and papers related to closure of Inverness Steam Baking Co 1894-1899; miscellaneous papers and correspondence 1897-1905.
System of Arrangement
Records are arranged within series.
Administrative Information
Custodial History
Unknown
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The records were deposited by Dr R Cook of the Department of Biochemistry in 1981 (AccM/147).
Accruals
None expected.
Access Conditions
Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act and any other appropriate legislation.
Copyright/Reproduction
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Existence of Copies
No known copies.
Existence/Location of Originals
The material is original.
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