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Records Relating to Working Conditions and Health

Reference:	MS 3/1/5
Collection:	S.F. Price Collection
Date:	c1933?
Description:	Employers’ Labour Policy and Craft Unions: A Study of British Industrial Relations from the 1870s to the War

Reference:	MS 3/14/3
Collection:	S. F. Price Collection
Date:	1903
Description:	Handbook on The Shipbuilding Employers’ Federation Constitution and Conditions of Federation. 1903

Reference:	MS 4/5
Collection:	Prints from the Dioptric Review
Date:	1937
Description:	Treatment for squint in 16th century - print reproduced in the Dioptric Review.

Reference:	MS 6/1/6/1
Collection:	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date:	1833
Description:	Dundee Advertiser copy extract. Statement by James Gow, Chairman of the Weavers Union regarding lengths of webs weavers are employed to weave. To weavers of Great Britain & Ireland. 2 Aug . 1doc

Reference:	MS 6/1/6/4/8
Collection:	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date:	5 May 1926.
Description:	The Times. During the General Strike.

Reference:	MS 6/7/5/4
Collection:	COX BROTHERS LTD, JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS, DUNDEE; COX FAMILY PAPERS
Date:	1902-1944
Description:	Margot Cox's Newspaper cuttings, including items relating to the Lochee Strike.

Reference:	MS 9/3(3)
Collection:	Glasite Church
Date:	4 August, 1816
Description:	Letter referring to inability to obtain work in printing trade. John Allan to Patrick Cochran.

Reference:	MS 9/3(9)
Collection:	Glasite Church
Date:	17 November, 1819
Description:	Letter referring to members of congregation involved with 'Benefit Societies'.

Reference:	MS 10/4
Collection:	Boase & Co Ltd (Claverhouse Bleachfield)
Date:	1856 - 1859
Description:	Wages Book.

Reference:	MS 11/3/4-11
Collection:	Baxter Bros & Co Ltd
Date:	1841 - 1938
Description:	Wages and production books; includes school wages from 1873 - 1912.

Reference:	MS 11/3/12
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1905 -1921
Description:	Bonuses to engineers, details of stoppages giving reasons.

Reference:	MS 11/3/13
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1854 - 1959
Description:	Wages and salaries - Miscellaneous papers including the appointment of ancillary staff.

Reference:	MS 11/5/5(2)(ii)
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1795 - 1950
Description:	The Building of a Great Textile Factory. The Story of its Inception and Development. Illustrated history.

Reference:	MS 11/5/5(4)
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1795 - 1950
Description:	Newspaper cuttings.

Reference:	MS 11/5/5(6)
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1886
Description:	Personal journal of trips to Lille factories.

Reference:	MS 11/5/5(8)
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	-
Description:	Linen Manufacture. Illustrated pamphlet reprint from 'The Gentleman's Journal'.

Reference:	MS 11/5/5(14)
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1950
Description:	Notes on history of Baxters.

Reference:	MS 11/5/5(18)
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1899 - 1913
Description:	Miscellaneous statistics and technical notes - fire connections.

Reference:	MS 11/5/5(20)
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1895 - 1957
Description:	Notes of absentees after holidays.

Reference:	MS 11/5/9
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1913
Description:	Typed sketch of history of firm.

Reference:	MS 11/5/13
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1907 - 1926
Description:	Fire Brigade report.

Reference:	MS 11/5/14
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1866
Description:	Charles Mackie: Reminiscences of Flax Spinning. Includes militancy of women spinners in Forfarshire; distress in Dundee caused by fall in supply of flax from Baltic.

Reference:	MS 11/5/15
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	c 1950
Description:	Illustrated booklet - history and development of firm.

Reference:	MS 11/5/16(7)
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1934 - 1944
Description:	Staff salaries and conditions of work.

Reference:	MS 11/5/25
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1919 - 1925
Description:	Notebook giving details of disabled soldiers and occupation on entering and leaving employment.

Reference:	MS 11/5/35
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1969
Description:	Training booklets.

Reference:	MS 11/5/51
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1986
Description:	Letters to Courier concerning tunnels.

Reference:	MS 11/6/4
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	1862
Description:	Danger from Lucifer matches. Also MS 11/7/56 - negative.

Reference:	MS 11/7
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	-
Description:	Photographs - various - some showing general interior of works with operators.

Reference:	MS 11/D
Collection:	Baxter Brothers & Co. Ltd
Date:	-
Description:	Technical drawings

Reference:	MS 15/42/1
Collection:	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date:	c.1895
Description:	Papers relating to Scott family of Lundie - agricultural social conditions.

Reference:	MS 15/283
Collection:	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date:	1867
Description:	Autobiography: Poems and Songs of Ellen Johnston, the "Factory Girl". Glasgow, 1867. Includes an account of her time in Dundee. [Bound photocopy].

Reference:	MS 17/4/1(14)
Collection:	Thornton Collection (Grange)
Date:	1889 - 1901
Description:	Wages on Grange estate.

Reference:	MS 17/8
Collection:	Thornton (Bannatyne Home of Rest)
Date:	1892 - 1962
Description:	Miscellaneous papers on Bannatyne Home of Rest, including some photographs of residents and staff.

Reference:	MS 17/9/1(5)
Collection:	Thornton (Dalyell)
Date:	1814 - 1825
Description:	Accounts of money received by James Dalyell, including record of navy pay and ports where it was paid.

Reference:	MS 17/10/3(9)
Collection:	Thornton (Dalyell)
Date:	1987
Description:	Letter from John James Dalyell in Royal Lunatic Asylum, Montrose, describing personal conditions.

Reference:	MS 17/12/11
Collection:	Thornton Collection
Date:	1905 - 1906
Description:	Legal papers referring to the supply of water to Blairgowrie.

Reference:	MS 23/4
Collection:	William Ferguson & Sons Ltd. Jute Manufacturers.
Date:	1839 - 1946
Description:	Souvenir brochure outlining history of firm; photographs.

Reference:	MS 24/2
Collection:	Low & Bonar Ltd, Jute Manufacturers.
Date:	1930 - 1933
Description:	Wages book [?Overseers]

Reference:	MS 24/8
Collection:	Low & Bonar Ltd. Jute Manufacturers
Date:	1950
Description:	Illustrated booklet outlining the history and development of the firm.

Reference:	MS 25/1/3/1(6)
Collection:	Thomas Campbell, Poet
Date:	1832
Description:	Letter from Mary Campbell to Thomas Campbell concerning her health and outbreak of cholera in Canongate.

Reference:	MS 25/1/3/2(139)
Collection:	Thomas Campbell, Poet
Date:	1841
Description:	Letter from Thomas Campbell to nephew concerning wages offered to woman to act as housekeeper.

Reference:	MS 31/1
Collection:	Dr Ruth Young, CBE MBE BSc MB ChB
Date:	1884 - 1983
Description:	Journals - describes conditions on tour of Far East, Canada and USA. Photographs and postcards.

Reference:	MS 31/2
Collection:	Dr Ruth Young CBE MBE BSc MB ChB
Date:	1943
Description:	Reports on maternity and child welfare work, Ethiopia.

Reference:	MS 32/2/1
Collection:	James Banks & Sons, Rope and Twine Merchants
Date:	c 1910 - 1920
Description:	Photograph showing hackling process.

Reference:	MS 38
Collection:	Torrance Collection.
Date:	1862 - 1951
Description:	Collection containing photographs of hospitals, staff, patients and diseases in Israel and Palestine, notebooks and articles.

Reference:	MS 42/18(34)
Collection:	Giddings & Lewis-Fraser, Engineers
Date:	1941 - 1953
Description:	Volume containing note of firewatcher's allowances including minutes of Social Club.

Reference:	MS 42/21
Collection:	Giddings & Lewis-Fraser, Engineers
Date:	1951 - 1963
Description:	Photograph album - various factory scenes, international and local.

Reference:	MS 43/10
Collection:	Alexander Shanks & Co Engineers
Date:	1892 - 1910
Description:	Volume containing details of apprenticeships, dates and times to be served.

Reference:	MS 44/3(1 - 5)
Collection:	James Allison & Sons (Sailmakers) LTD
Date:	1890 -1957
Description:	Wages book - 5 volumes.

Reference:	MS 44/10/1
Collection:	James Allison & Sons (Sailmakers) LTD
Date:	1877 - 1889
Description:	Printed indentures of apprentices.

Reference:	MS 45/3/2(5)
Collection:	Lewis C Grant Ltd Engineers
Date:	-
Description:	Particulars of schemes for benefit of employees.

Reference:	MS 45/3/9
Collection:	Lewis C Grant Engineers
Date:	c 1920
Description:	File containing information on beri-beri in Siam [Thailand].

Reference:	MS 45/3/28
Collection:	LEWIS C GRANT LTD Engineers
Date:	early 1900's
Description:	File containing information on numbers of employees in various firms departments; draft comparison of wages 1946 - 1947.

Reference:	MS 45/7
Collection:	LEWIS C GRANT LTD Engineers
Date:	various
Description:	Photographs (miscellaneous) including interior of works, some showing workers.

Reference:	MS 45/9/15
Collection:	LEWIS C GRANT LTD Engineers
Date:	1897
Description:	Form proposing engagement of Lewis C Grant as apprentice engineer; sets out weekly wage rates for six years.

Reference:	MS 47/2
Collection:	W G GRANT & CO LTD Linen Manufacturers
Date:	1950 - 1952
Description:	Scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings relating to firm.

Reference:	MS 49
Collection:	HUGH STANNUS STANNUS
Date:	1905 - 1918
Description:	Glass negatives of African natives showing skin disorders and physical abnormalities. Part of large unidentified collection.

Reference:	MS 50/8(268-284)
Collection:	SIR ROBERT ROBINSON
Date:	Various
Description:	Various papers on sewage, public water supply and sanitation.

Reference:	MS 50/12(522, 524)
Collection:	SIR ROBERT ROBINSON
Date:	1941-42
Description:	Use of ascorbic acid in treatment of gingivitis and tooth extraction wounds. Articles from British Medical Journal and British Dental Journal.

Reference:	MS 50/12(529)
Collection:	SIR ROBERT ROBINSON
Date:	1942
Description:	Article from The Lancet on infantile beri-beri and beri-beri heart by Hugh Stannus Stannus.

Reference:	MS 50/18(119/4)
Collection:	SIR ROBERT ROBINSON
Date:	1935
Description:	Part of a paper on the law and supply of milk, by J F Tocher.

Reference:	MS 52/3/22
Collection:	WEST HIGHLAND SALMON FISHERIES CO LTD
Date:	1955
Description:	Copy letters including complaints from a crew about their skipper.

Reference:	MS 54/13(8)
Collection:	COLLEGE & COLLEGIATE CHURCH of the HOLY SPIRIT, Cumbrae
Date:	1875
Description:	Letter from Earl of Glasgow to Master of Works, Millport; poor sanitary conditions in Millport.

Reference:	MS 57/1/17
Collection:	OGILVIE, COWAN & CO Solicitors (Duntrune Estate)
Date:	1874 - 1894
Description:	Notebooks containing record of wages; memorandum books.

Reference:	MS 57/1/30-32
Collection:	OGILVIE, COWAN & CO Solicitors (Duntrune Estate)
Date:	1880 - 1897
Description:	"Labour Books" includes days' wages, type of work carried out.

Reference:	MS 57/1/33-35
Collection:	OGILVIE, COWAN & CO Solicitors (Duntrune Estate)
Date:	1869 - 1893
Description:	Wages and sundry expenses books.

Reference:	MS 57/3/3
Collection:	OGILVIE, COWAN & CO Solicitors: MISCELLANEOUS SHIPMASTER'S PAPERS
Date:	1828 - 1829
Description:	Miscellaneous papers concerning wages and oil money of the crew of 'Dorothy'.

Reference:	MS 57/3/6
Collection:	OGILVIE, COWAN & CO Solicitors: MISCELLANEOUS SHIPMASTER'S PAPERS
Date:	1797 - 1800
Description:	Papers of the sloop 'Martha', contains notes as to seamen's wages.

Reference:	MS 60/1/2
Collection:	CAIRD (DUNDEE) LTD
Date:	1918 - 1920
Description:	Private letter book of Mrs Marryat (executrix of late Sir James Caird); includes details of labour problems.

Reference:	MS 60/3/2
Collection:	CAIRD (DUNDEE) LTD
Date:	1913
Description:	Miscellaneous photographs, some showing factory machines and workers.

Reference:	MS 61/1(10)
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	1838
Description:	Offprint of chart of incidence of typhus in Dundee since 1838 by J W Miller, with notes.

Reference:	MS 61/1(36)
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	1895
Description:	Letter from Stair Agnew to R C Buist concerning vaccination records.

Reference:	MS 61/1(51-53)
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	1896 - 97
Description:	Copy letter, newspaper cutting and printed notice concerning members' fees to Friendly Societies, their doctors' fees and the Ancient Order of Foresters.

Reference:	MS 61/1(67)
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	1897
Description:	Newspaper cutting concerning Medical Trade Unionism.

Reference:	MS 61/1(71)
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	1897
Description:	Copy letter by Dr Buist, Dundee - comments in detail on Public Health (Scotland) Bill.

Reference:	MS 61/1(103)
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	1899
Description:	Letter from Andy Peeh to Dr Halley concerning insanitary funeral customs.

Reference:	MS 61/1(104)
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	1899
Description:	Paper by J Peddie: "Milk: its production and distribution from the standpoint of Public Health".

Reference:	MS 61/1(107-108)
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	1900
Description:	Letter and draft letter concerning vaccination.

Reference:	MS 61/1(115-116)
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	1900
Description:	Letter concerning wage limits for doctors.

Reference:	MS 61/2
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	1903 - 1915
Description:	Minute book, containing references to medical certificates, vaccination, lunacy laws, use of chloroform, notes on unprofessional conduct.

Reference:	MS 61/2(15)
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	n.d.
Description:	Copy report on lunacy laws, vaccination.

Reference:	MS 61/2(64)
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	1907
Description:	Letter from Robert Miller to R C Buist: concerns patients attending Dundee Eye Institution.

Reference:	MS 61/3
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	1912 - 1919
Description:	Minute book, containing references to medical examination of women applicants for munitions work; also number of women employed in industry.

Reference:	MS 61/3(50)
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	31 December 1918
Description:	A.G. Hill, Intelligence department, Federation of British Industry, London. Requests the views of the members of the Dundee branch on "The influence of the Dundee marmalade industry upon the inhabitants of that city is an apt illustration of the social danger involved in any wholesale shifting of the burden of the family's maintenance from the shoulders of the husband to the shoulders of the wife". See also MS 61/3(51) and (53).

Reference:	MS 61/4
Collection:	BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: Dundee branch
Date:	various
Description:	Miscellaneous loose papers concerning a variety of topics, including inspection of school children for tuberculosis and treatment; salaries of medical officers.

Reference:	MS 65/1/1
Collection:	Dundee Power Loom Tenters Society
Date:	1916-1923
Description:	Minute Book

Reference:	MS 66/I/6
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD: Thomas Bell & Sons (of Dundee) Ltd
Date:	1939 - 1942
Description:	Tradesmen's time books - 2 volumes

Reference:	MS 66/II/5
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD (Cox Bros)
Date:	1893 - 1921
Description:	Wages books; also unidentified wages book 1860 - 1862.

Reference:	MS 66/II/9/3
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD (Cox Bros)
Date:	1886 - 1918
Description:	Notebook containing particulars of machinery, production; notes on attendance, absenteeism and accidents. Latter part on labour relations and disputes.

Reference:	MS 66/II/9/4
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD (Cox Bros)
Date:	1906 - 1915
Description:	Scrapbook of press cuttings mainly in connection with labour disputes.

Reference:	MS 66/II/10/26
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD (Cox)
Date:	1811 - 1912
Description:	Record of wage rates payable; rates to blacksmiths; Cox's rates to foundry workers.

Reference:	MS 66/II/10/29
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD (Cox Bros)
Date:	1917 - 1918
Description:	Census of labour employed in jute industry.

Reference:	MS 66/II/10/40
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD (Cox Bros)
Date:	1879 - 1911
Description:	Business correspondence concerning a sanitary convenience for women at Camperdown Works.

Reference:	MS 66/IV/7/1
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD (J & A D Grimond Ltd)
Date:	1896-1935
Description:	Register of accidents. [See also MS 15/250].

Reference:	MS 66/IV/12
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD (J & A D Grimond Ltd)
Date:	1885 - 1960
Description:	Various photographs of works fire brigade; workers at Bowbridge workers at rallies.

Reference:	MS 66/V
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD (John N Kyd & Co Ltd)
Date:	1892-1919
Description:	Miscellaneous papers including wages books, history of Rashiewell works, register of young persons employed. Photographs of employees.

Reference:	MS 66/VI/4/1
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD (Harry Walker & Sons Ltd)
Date:	c 1912
Description:	Wages records: memorandum of representations made by tradesmen for wage increases, and of wage rates paid. Refers to strike of 1912. MS 66/VI/9/1: Photographs of workers; letters concerning dissatisfaction of female workers with rates of pay; wages and hours worked by firemen.

Reference:	MS 66/VI/7/9
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LTD (Harry Walker & Sons Ltd)
Date:	22 October, 1885
Description:	Letter, Dundee, William Swoldon to Messrs Harry Walker & Sons, concerning dissatisfaction of female workers about their pay rates. Also includes a note of wages and hours worked by fire officers and enginemen.

Reference:	MS 66/IX/5
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LIMITED (Boase Spinning Co Ltd)
Date:	1946-1968
Description:	Photographs of works interiors showing female operators carrying out various tasks.

Reference:	MS 66/X/5
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LIMITED
Date:	various 1919 - 1963
Description:	Wages and salaries books and records.

Reference:	MS 66/X/10/5
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LIMITED
Date:	1940-1944
Description:	Accidents book.

Reference:	MS 66/X/11
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LIMITED
Date:	various
Description:	Miscellaneous correspondence including list of redundancies; applications for reinstatement; application forms for extra bread for manual workers.

Reference:	MS 66/XII/2
Collection:	SIDLAW INDUSTRIES LIMITED
Date:	1911 - 1920
Description:	Unidentified wages books (3).

Reference:	MS 67
Collection:	ROBERT COCHRANE BUIST
Date:	1860 - 1939
Description:	Papers relating to history and practice of medicine, particularly in Dundee and Angus.

Reference:	MS 71/3/1
Collection:	BUIST SPINNING CO LTD
Date:	1897 - 1945
Description:	Invoice book; includes notices re changing wages and labour relations; legislation on running of works.

Reference:	MS 71/4
Collection:	BUIST SPINNING CO LTD
Date:	1957 - 1968
Description:	Wages books (10 volumes)

Reference:	MS 73
Collection:	INGRAM SHIPPING RECORDS
Date:	Late 18th C. to c.1970s
Description:	Notebooks on shipping in the North-East of Scotland, including references to the following: Vol 9: Cholera - general notes; Vol 11: Mutiny or disaffections - general notes; Vol 12: Shipbuilders' unions; shipyard workers' income tax; officials' salaries; National Dock Labour Board; Vol 13: Wages and salaries; yellow fever; stowaways; important casualties.

Reference:	MS 82/1/1(1)
Collection:	WILSON FAMILY PAPERS
Date:	1771
Description:	Indenture apprenticing James Wilson to Alexander Murray, Beith.

Reference:	MS 82/4/10(14-15)
Collection:	WILSON FAMILY PAPERS
Date:	1902-1904, 1907
Description:	Letters to Alexander Steven Wilson from his immediate family in London and Alva. Mention unemployment marches, suffragists, social problems.

Reference:	MS 82/4/26(3-14)
Collection:	WILSON FAMILY PAPERS
Date:	1899-1902
Description:	College papers, City and Guilds course, Finsbury Technical College. Include testimonials from Robert Simpson, Headmaster of Balham School, S.W.,1899; admittance ticket to presentation of prizes and certificates, 10 March, 1902; election to Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1902; report cards, 1900-1902; laboratory work: trials of College Steam Engine. 1901.

Reference:	MS 82/4/26(16-32)
Collection:	WILSON FAMILY PAPERS
Date:	1900-1902
Description:	Lecture notes and laboratory work books of A.S. Wilson, Physics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Electro-technics, Electric Laboratory: City and Guilds of London Institute, City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury. [13 notebooks]. Include (29-31) brochures by Schuckert & Co., Nürnberg [in (28)]; and (32) lecture: The Life and Work of Lord Kelvin by Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, 1908 [in (24)].

Reference:	MS 82/4/26(46-61)
Collection:	WILSON FAMILY PAPERS
Date:	1903-1907
Description:	Papers relating to employment with Siemens Schukertwerke and Siemens Brothers.

Reference:	MS 82/4/26(92)
Collection:	WILSON FAMILY PAPERS
Date:	1926
Description:	Alexander Steven Wilson's warrant card: Special Constable during General Strike.

Reference:	MS 82/4/26(121)
Collection:	WILSON FAMILY PAPERS
Date:	c.1964
Description:	Typescript: "100 years in Wool" by Alexander Steven Wilson. Account of early years of Wilson Brothers, and also of his own experiences.

Reference:	MS 82/WB/7
Collection:	WILSON BROS (ALVA) LTD (WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES)
Date:	1903-1964
Description:	Wage books and other personnel books. Include piece rates, fireman's rates, particulars of employees and rate for outworker weavers.

Reference:	MS 82/WB/13/5
Collection:	WILSON BROS (ALVA) LTD (WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES)
Date:	1943-1945
Description:	Correspondence relating to magnetic loom - mentions difficulty of getting girl loom operators due to noise of looms.

Reference:	MS 82/WB/15/2
Collection:	WILSON BROS (ALVA) LTD (WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES)
Date:	1941-1967
Description:	Album of photographs of Dalmore Works, Alva, including the workforce.

Reference:	MS 83/14/21
Collection:	JUTE IMPORTERS ASSOCIATION
Date:	1960 - 1966
Description:	Correspondence and minutes relating to rates of pay for jute warehouse stowers.

Reference:	MS 83/14/24
Collection:	JUTE IMPORTERS ASSOCIATION
Date:	1965
Description:	Miscellaneous circulars and forms relating to fire precautions in jute warehouses.

Reference:	MS 83/15
Collection:	JUTE IMPORTERS ASSOCIATION
Date:	1900
Description:	Miscellaneous photographs showing cultivation, manufacture and export of jute; various jute processes.

Reference:	MS 84/28/16 and MS 84/28/17
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1958-1979
Description:	Various papers and pamphlets (HMSO) on inflation and pay.

Reference:	MS 84/5/1
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1919-1924
Description:	Transfer book, containing minutes of "Wages and Hours Sub-Committee" and "'Standard Wages and Holding On' Section of Wages and Hours Committee".

Reference:	MS 84/5/2
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1924-1940
Description:	Transfer book containing minutes of various subcommittees, including "Unemployment Dole", "Juvenile Employment" 1924-1931. Also contains minutes of "Spinning and Weaving panels of 'Wages and Hours Subcommittee'", 1925-1940, "Joint Meetings with Worker's Representatives", 1924-1934.

Reference:	MS 84/5/4
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1934-1952
Description:	Transfer book containing minutes of various committees and sub-committees, including "Women doing Men's Work", "General Committee and Wages and Hours", "Motormen's Wages", "Registration for Employment", "Young Workers", "Holidays with Pay", "Joint Meetings with Workers Representatives".

Reference:	MS 84/6/1
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1942-1945
Description:	Minutes of various committees set up to deal with Government war time and post war policies, including "Labour Advisory".

Reference:	MS 84/6/6
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1953-1966
Description:	Minutes of various committees, including "Wages Council Adjustment", and "Textile Wages".

Reference:	MS 84/7
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1952-1968
Description:	Minutes mainly of joint meetings with trade unions.

Reference:	MS 84/8-10
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1924 - 1969
Description:	Minutes of "Wages and Hours Sub-Committee"; "Jute Wages Structure Sub-Committee" and "Joint Wages Structure Sub-Committee".

Reference:	MS 84/13/11
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1956 - 1964
Description:	Memorandum and reports relating to wage rates and working conditions in European jute industry.

Reference:	MS 84/15/7
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1968 - 1971
Description:	Earnings questionnaires, statistical tables on wages, job specifications with related notes and correspondence.

Reference:	MS 84/15/15-19
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1976
Description:	Wages structure - Official Association Scheme and Amendments - mainly working papers of the Assistant Secretary.

Reference:	MS 84/24
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1962 - 1974
Description:	Industrial Training Board: Correspondence, minutes, reports and training manuals (10 volumes).

Reference:	MS 84/28/11
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	November 1972
Description:	Weekly gross earnings from some AJSM companies.

Reference:	MS 84/28/12
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	c.1972
Description:	Papers relating to textile training schemes.

Reference:	MS 84/29
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	-
Description:	Occupational sick pay schemes and health and safety - various papers.

Reference:	MS 84/30/12
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1971
Description:	Conditions of work in the EEC textile industry - French and German with hand written English translation of the French.

Reference:	MS 84/31
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1965 - 1967
Description:	Files and papers relating to calculation of AJSM's new jute wages structure.

Reference:	MS 84/33
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1921-1962
Description:	Miscellaneous papers, some relating to wages, industrial relations, working conditions.

Reference:	MS 84/34/1
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	1915-1917
Description:	Dundee and District Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association Ltd. Book containing loose pages which give record of members' works, or sections of works, closed down owing to labour disputes (including notes on General Strike of March/April 1916).

Reference:	MS 84/34/3
Collection:	ASSOCIATION OF JUTE SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
Date:	c 1950
Description:	Training manual, jute weaving.

Reference:	MS 86/I/8
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Samnuggur Jute Factory Co Ltd, Calcutta)
Date:	1913-1961
Description:	Employee records; memoranda of agreements with European employees in India.

Reference:	MS 86/I/D
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Samnuggur Jute Factory Co Ltd, Calcutta)
Date:	1874-1969
Description:	Various plans, some of which relate to working environment, housing for employees etc.

Reference:	MS 86/II/8
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Victoria Jute Factory Co Ltd, Calcutta)
Date:	1925-1961
Description:	Employee records; memoranda of agreements with European employees in India.

Reference:	MS 86/II/D
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Victoria Jute Factory Co Ltd, Calcutta)
Date:	1928-c.1970
Description:	Various plans, some of which relate to working environment, housing for employees etc.

Reference:	MS 86/III/8
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Titaghur Jute Factory Co Ltd, Calcutta)
Date:	1913-1956
Description:	Employees records; memoranda of agreements with European employees in India.

Reference:	MS 86/III/10/1
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Titaghur Jute Factory Co Ltd, Calcutta)
Date:	1893
Description:	Correspondence and reports relating to unsatisfactory sanitary condition of Titaghur Ward.

Reference:	MS 86/III/D
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Titaghur Jute Factory Co Ltd, Calcutta)
Date:	c.1890-1963
Description:	Various plans, some of which relate to working environment, housing for employees, proposed hospital (1963).

Reference:	MS 86/IV/8
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Angus Co Ltd, Jute and Engineering Works, Calcutta)
Date:	1933-1965
Description:	Employees records; memoranda of agreements with European employees in India.

Reference:	MS 86/IV/D/3
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Angus Co Ltd, Jute and Engineering Works, Calcutta)
Date:	1969
Description:	Site plan of residential compound.

Reference:	MS 86/V/8
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Thomas Duff & Co Ltd)
Date:	1930-1974
Description:	Mangers' reports to the directors. Indexed annual reports giving comprehensive information on all aspects of the companies activities in India - relating to the Samnuggur and Titaghur mills, Angus Jute Works, and the Victoria Jute Company. There is information on industrial action, agitation, recreational facilities, living conditions, housing, wages, hours. There are relevant annual statistics.

Reference:	MS 86/V/9
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Thomas Duff & Co Ltd)
Date:	1913-1967
Description:	Files relating to engagement and conditions of service mainly of European staff.

Reference:	MS 86/V/13/15
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Thomas Duff & Co Ltd)
Date:	1946-1964
Description:	File: IJMA Labour Strikes: circulars to Thomas Duff as manager of Indian jute mills re labour disputes.

Reference:	MS 86/V/13/18
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Thomas Duff & Co Ltd)
Date:	1963 - 1967
Description:	Labour retrenchment; working complement in various Indian mills

Reference:	MS 86/V/13/19
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Thomas Duff & Co Ltd)
Date:	1956 - 1957
Description:	Memo note book containing notes on employees.

Reference:	MS 86/VI/13
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Hardie & Smith Ltd)
Date:	1953-1957
Description:	Work study reports and schemes (produced by Associated Industrial Consultants Ltd).

Reference:	MS 86/VI/14/7
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Hardie & Smith Ltd)
Date:	1959-1960
Description:	Accident books [5].

Reference:	MS 86/VI/8
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Hardie & Smith Ltd)
Date:	1939 - 1984
Description:	Factory, Mill and Winders wages and time books; tax earnings and records 1978 - 1984. (34 volumes in total)

Reference:	MS 86/XI/6/1
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Cargill & Co Ltd)
Date:	1915-1934
Description:	Apprentices letters of acceptance with some related papers.

Reference:	MS 86/XI/6/2
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (Cargill & Co Ltd)
Date:	1951-1974
Description:	Government General Registers for Factories [2] in respect of employees under age 18, accidents etc.

Reference:	MS 86/XII/8/1
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD (William Watson (Dundee) Ltd)
Date:	1974-1980
Description:	Accident book.

Reference:	MS 86/XX/7
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD
Date:	1955
Description:	Illustrated brochure giving outline of history of company.

Reference:	MS 86/XX/8
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD
Date:	1932
Description:	Transcription of article in Manchester Guardian: The House of A & S Henry & Co Ltd. A Brief Outline.

Reference:	MS 86/XXV/16-18
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD
Date:	1948, 1955 and 1951
Description:	Awards in matters of industrial disputes in West Bengal.

Reference:	MS 86/XXVI
Collection:	A & S HENRY & CO LTD
Date:	1957-1959
Description:	Miscellaneous photographs of interior and exterior of mills; workers and machines, quarters.

Reference:	MS 89/4/6, 8, 9
Collection:	JAMES F. LOW (Engineers) LTD
Date:	1957 - 1959
Description:	Cash books containing abstracts of departmental wages.

Reference:	MS 94/II/5
Collection:	THOMAS C. KEAY LTD
Date:	1910 - 1967
Description:	Labour records, including wages

Reference:	MS 94/VI
Collection:	THOMAS C KEAY LTD
Date:	1910 - 1967
Description:	Photographs showing workers at machines: various.

Reference:	MS 95/9
Collection:	THOMSON SHEPHERD & CO LTD
Date:	1932 - 1961
Description:	Wages books; tradesmen's analysis books; pension contributions records.

Reference:	MS 95/11
Collection:	THOMSON SHEPHERD & CO LTD
Date:	1868-1870
Description:	Factory school certificate books.

Reference:	MS 95/13
Collection:	THOMSON SHEPHERD & CO LTD
Date:	1852 - 1951
Description:	Photographs - various, including workers and staff, plans.

Reference:	MS 98/3
Collection:	H & A SCOTT (Textile Manufacturers, Dundee)
Date:	1880 - 1957
Description:	Various time and wages books. (20 volumes)

Reference:	MS 99/7
Collection:	Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society - Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Taybank Works
Date:	1970
Description:	Details of work study programme.

Reference:	MS 99/8
Collection:	Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society - Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Taybank Works
Date:	1975
Description:	File containing operating data from spinning mill and weaving factory, Taybank Works. Also includes draft work study report on job of inspectress of cone winding system.

Reference:	MS 99/9
Collection:	Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society - Jute Spinners and Manufacturers, Taybank Works
Date:	1974 - 1983
Description:	File containing spinning work values and studies with night shift studies, by department.

Reference:	MS 100/I/2/8
Collection:	DON & LOW (Holdings) LTD
Date:	1934 - 1940
Description:	Private letter book containing correspondence relating to Fair Wages Resolution.

Reference:	MS 100/I/5, 6
Collection:	DON & LOW (Holdings) LTD
Date:	1805-1946
Description:	Wages and salaries books; miscellaneous papers relating to wages and salaries.

Reference:	MS 100/I/9/6
Collection:	DON & LOW (Holdings) LTD
Date:	c 1930
Description:	Printed copy rules to be observed by workers in Dundee and Forfar mills.

Reference:	MS 100/I/10/5
Collection:	DON & LOW (Holdings) LTD
Date:	various
Description:	Brief history of Don Brothers Buist PLC and also photocopy article on development of Don Brothers Buist and Company.

Reference:	MS 100/III/4
Collection:	MOFFAT & SON LTD, Forfar
Date:	1939 - 1948
Description:	Staff salaries book.

Reference:	MS 101/12
Collection:	WILLIAM R STEWART & SONS (Hacklemakers) LTD
Date:	1963 - 1974 (not consecutive)
Description:	Wages books.

Reference:	MS 102/1/1-3
Collection:	PETER CARMICHAEL OF ARTHURSTONE (1809-1891)
Date:	19th C.
Description:	Reminiscences. Three Volumes. Describes life in Dundee from 1816 onwards. Also describe working conditions in Dens Mills - apprenticeship etc.

Reference:	MS 103/1/6
Collection:	KINNEAR COLLECTION
Date:	19th C.[1955-1956]
Description:	"Dundee Doctors in the Nineteenth Century" - paper read to Abertay Historical Society by John Kinnear.

Reference:	MS 103/3/8
Collection:	KINNEAR COLLECTION
Date:	c.1935-1955
Description:	Notebook: Mary Brooksbank - "Poems and Songs". The poems deal not only with life in the mill on a humorous and realistic level, but with social justice, the waste of war, political events etc.

Reference:	MS 106/1/4
Collection:	First World War Collection
Date:	c.1914-1917
Description:	"The Small Book" of Private James Braid, Royal Highlanders, which gives information required by soldiers.

Reference:	MS 111/1
Collection:	Dr William Maxwell Jamieson
Date:	1889-1989
Description:	Staff records and miscellaneous articles and papers relating to King's Cross Hospital, including material relating to epidemics, in particlar the smallpox epidemic of 1927.

Reference:	MS 111/2,3
Collection:	Dr William Maxwell Jamieson
Date:	1944-1989
Description:	Publications and unpublished articles relating to infectious diseases, some referring to cases in Dundee, including references to diphtheria, influenza, poliomyelitis, paratyphoid fever and AIDS.

Reference:	MS 111/4
Collection:	Dr William Maxwell Jamieson
Date:	1987
Description:	Unpublished articles relating to medicine in Tayside and to Dundee Medical School.

Reference:	MS 111/5
Collection:	Dr William Maxwell Jamieson
Date:	[1825]-1993
Description:	Miscellaneous articles (not by Jamieson) relating to infectious diseases. Include references to smallpox, cholera, typhus, tuberculosis, lassa fever, malaria and AIDS.

Reference:	MS 111/6
Collection:	Dr William Maxwell Jamieson
Date:	[1801]-1990
Description:	Unpublished articles (not by Jamieson) relating to the history of medicine, with particular reference to Dundee and Tayside.

Reference:	MS 118/2/3
Collection:	D. Pirie & Company Limited
Date:	1906-1932
Description:	Financial ledger with various accounts and journal entries. Includes salaries.

Reference:	MS 118/2/6
Collection:	D. Pirie & Company Limited
Date:	1949-1959
Description:	Financial ledger with various accounts and journal entries. Includes investments and salaries.

Reference:	MS 118/5/4
Collection:	D. Pirie & Company Limited
Date:	1931
Description:	Scrapbook. Contains Jute Trade Board minimum wage rates.

Reference:	MS 124
Collection:	House book of Ochtertyre and Fowlis
Date:	1939
Description:	Household expenses and wages.

Reference:	MS 127
Collection:	Notes from medical lectures taken by George Buchanan
Date:	1865
Description:	Notes on tubercular diseases, Glasgow.

Reference:	MS 131/1
Collection:	Colonel Sir Alexander J H Russell
Date:	1923
Description:	Sanitation in Sumatra - typescript detailing geology, labour force, treatment of disease, etc.

Reference:	MS 131/2
Collection:	Colonel Sir Alexander J H Russell
Date:	1925
Description:	Letter on the difficulties of being a Port Health Officer in Calicut. A.S.G. Lorimer to (?Sir Alexander) Russell.

Reference:	MS 131/3
Collection:	Colonel Sir Alexander J H Russell
Date:	1939
Description:	Letter on report concerning difficulties of carrying out controlled experiments in the field in India. Relates to analysis of results of anti-cholera inoculation in 1939.

Reference:	MS 131/4
Collection:	Colonel Sir Alexander J H Russell
Date:	1939
Description:	Note on Yellow Fever position by Col. A.J.H. Russell, the possible spread to countries at present free from disease.

Reference:	MS 131/5
Collection:	Colonel Sir Alexander J H Russell
Date:	1941 - 42
Description:	Yellow Fever regulations - India.

Reference:	MS 132
Collection:	William Brown's Essay
Date:	1819 - 1823
Description:	Essay on Flax Spinning and management of East Mill, Dundee, covering sanitary arrangements, labour force wages and hours.

Reference:	MS 132/1
Collection:	William Brown’s Essay on Flax Spinning and Related Papers
Date:	1819-1823
Description:	Essay on Flax Spinning and Remarks on the Management of East Mill, Dundee, by William Brown, the manager, 1819-1823. 1 volume [typescript]. Includes the following topics: Premises-history, description, alterations, fire precautions, sanitary arrangements, insurance, machinery-layout, description, repairs, improvement, management of steam engines in particular, labour force-wages and hours, techniques-including improvements and experiments. Also includes essay entitled “Information Regarding Flax Spinners at Leeds”, 1821. Compares practices there with those in Scotland and covers some of the topics as above.

Reference:	MS 132/4
Collection:	William Brown’s Essay on Flax Spinning and Related Papers
Date:	1937
Description:	Article on “Century Old Day Book”, concerning James, John and William Brown, joint proprietors of the Flax Spinning Mill at West Ward, Dundee (the “East Mill”). Taken from Dundee Chamber of Commerce Year Book, 1937. [3pp.] [Photocopy].

Reference:	MS 134
Collection:	Working class life in Dundee for 25 years
Date:	1878 - 1903
Description:	Working class life in Dundee for 25 years - copy typescript by Dr David Lennox. Includes statistical tables relating to various aspects of health and working conditions.

Reference:	MS 139
Collection:	William Halley, jute manufacturers.
Date:	-
Description:	History of William Halley, jute manufacturers.

Reference:	MS 141/6/2/1-7
Collection:	Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee
Date:	1957-1958
Description:	NCR Employee Suggestion Award Certificates

Reference:	MS 141/6/2/9-10
Collection:	Papers of the Paton and Dingwall Families, Dundee
Date:	13 Mar 1975
Description:	Letter of Certificate of Thanks for 25 years service with NCR

Reference:	MS 143/5
Collection:	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date:	-
Description:	Notes answering queries regarding Merryflats Lunatic Asylum, Govan.

Reference:	MS 143/6
Collection:	Badenach Nicolson
Date:	1867 - 1892
Description:	Working class conditions. Notes by Badenach Nicolson, Secretary to Lord Advocate.

Reference:	MS 151
Collection:	J T Forbes, Music Shop, Dundee
Date:	1922 - 1933
Description:	Wages book.

Reference:	MS 151/1
Collection:	J.T. Forbes Ltd.
Date:	1922-1933
Description:	J.T. Forbes Ltd, Music Shop, Dundee. Wages book.

Reference:	MS 153
Collection:	Victoria Spinning Co Ltd
Date:	Various
Description:	Photographs and wages book.

Reference:	MS 156
Collection:	L P Michie, Chemist, Dundee
Date:	1907 - 1910
Description:	Prescription book.

Reference:	MS 158
Collection:	Dundee Harbour Porters Philanthropic Society
Date:	1873
Description:	Petition by Dundee Harbour Porters Philanthropic Society to Harbour Commission of Dundee requesting increase in 'plank money'.

Reference:	MS 164
Collection:	Margaret Menzies Campbel
Date:	Various
Description:	Reminiscences of Margaret Menzies Campbell, house surgeon in Doncaster.

Reference:	MS 165
Collection:	“Co-operation in Dundee” [c 1790-1940] by William Duncan
Date:	Late 18th C to c. 1940.
Description:	Notes on labour relations, co-operative societies, social conditions, notes from Dundee year books. Notes compiled 1940-1942.

Reference:	MS 180/1
Collection:	Alexander Thoms
Date:	19th Century
Description:	Photographs of fishermen and nets and boats.

Reference:	MS 184/1
Collection:	Thomas Handyside Baxter
Date:	1811-1812
Description:	Diary of Thomas Handyside Baxter, with references to grocery trade.

Reference:	MS 185/2
Collection:	Glasgow Argus.
Date:	1844 - 1846
Description:	Staff salaries in the printing trade - Glasgow Argus.

Reference:	MS 186
Collection:	Factory Register
Date:	1915 - 1927
Description:	Loose pages from statutory factory register. Accidents (from 1915 - 1924) and Limewashing (from 1915 - 1927).

Reference:	MS 191
Collection:	Report to Commissioners
Date:	1837
Description:	Water supply to the city of Perth - report contained in pamphlet by Adam Anderson, LLD FRSE Perth.

Reference:	MS 196
Collection:	G C Taylor and Son
Date:	n.d.
Description:	History of G C Taylor and Son, sail and rope maker, Jamaica Street, Dundee.

Reference:	MS 202/2
Collection:	Umpherston and Kerr, Millwrights, Dundee
Date:	1824 - 1827
Description:	Wages book

Reference:	MS 203
Collection:	Excerpt minutes of meeting of Poorhouse Committee, Dundee.
Date:	1889
Description:	Excerpt minutes of meeting of Poorhouse Committee, Dundee.

Reference:	MS 218
Collection:	Depree and Southgate families
Date:	c.1952-1954
Description:	Ration books and leaflets of Depree and Southgate families and others in Chagford, Devon.

Reference:	MS 224
Collection:	Patons of Montrose, Flax and Tow Manufacturers
Date:	1895-1922
Description:	Pay list of mechanics (1895), statement showing fluctuations of wages of mechanics, hacklemakers, overseers, preparers, spinners, reelers (1914-1922), and rates of wages paid (1895).

Reference:	MS 224/5
Collection:	Patons of Montrose, Flax and Tow Manufacturers
Date:	23 August 1895
Description:	“Rates of Wages Paid”,: two separate sheets; comparing rates between Dundee Jute; Dundee Flax & Tow; Belfast Flax & Tow; and Montrose Flax & Tow

Reference:	MS 230/27
Collection:	Alexander Bell, F.R.C.S. (1776-1852), Surgeon in Dundee
Date:	1832
Description:	Correspondence of Alexander Bell of Dundee Royal Infirmary. Refers to cholera epidemic and subsequent typhus epidemic.

Reference:	MS 230/28
Collection:	Alexander Bell, F.R.C.S. (1776-1852), Surgeon in Dundee
Date:	1833
Description:	Correspondence of Alexander Bell of Dundee Royal Infirmary. Encloses report of number of patients admitted to Infirmary over five years. Preponderance of cases of typhus. Accidents caused by young persons' ragged clothing becoming entangled in machinery.

Reference:	MS 243/2
Collection:	Manuscript of James Milton Robb, a U.S. prisoner-of-war held by the Japanese in the Philippines.
Date:	1941-1944
Description:	Manuscript of James Milton Robb, a U.S. prisoner-of-war held by the Japanese in the Philippines. During his imprisonment he kept a journal of daily life at the camps and included details of conditions relating to health, sanitation, disease etc.

Reference:	MS 250
Collection:	Dentistry in Dundee
Date:	1940
Description:	Dentistry in Dundee to 1940. Article and associated lists.

Reference:	MS 68/1/20
Collection:	DR WILLIAM L CHRISTIE
Date:	c 1960
Description:	File of newspaper cuttings on health and housing.

Reference:	MS 137
Collection:	Notebook of William Duncan
Date:	1921
Description:	Notebook of William Duncan (on living standards), an investigator with Dundee Parish Council.

Reference:	MS 162
Collection:	Scrapbook
Date:	1891 - 1896
Description:	Scrapbook of newspaper cuttings - crime, epidemic diseases.

Reference:	MS 168
Collection:	J B Hay & Co Ltd, Builders, Dundee.
Date:	1930
Description:	Photograph of workmen.

Reference:	MS 178
Collection:	Miscellaneous Manuscripts
Date:	n.d.
Description:	2 posters warning of 'mosquito danger' and 'fly danger'.

Reference:	MS 225
Collection:	Robert Fleming
Date:	1927
Description:	Robert Fleming: transcript of speech about schooldays and early days at work.

Reference:	MS 234
Collection:	Diary of John Sturrock, millwright
Date:	c 1865
Description:	Diary and transcript of personal accounts of John Sturrock, millwright, including working conditions.

Reference:	Recs A/697
Collection:	UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUNDEE and QUEENS COLLEGE, DUNDEE, Secretary and Treasurer.
Date:	1934-1956
Description:	Wages Books. Cleaners and other employees.

Reference:	Recs A/802/2/6
Collection:	University Records
Date:	1942-1945
Description:	Horticultural Advisory Committee: Correspondence relating to the employment of a member of the Women’s Land Army. Includes: (17) Employment contract for member of Women’s Land Army, including Memorandum regarding rates of pay and National Health, Pensions and Unemployment Insurance. 26 July 1943. (18) Schedule giving minimum and overtime rates of wages for agricultural workers , from “Agricultural Wages (Regulations) (Scotland) Acts, 1937 and 1940; Holidays with Pay Act, 1938”. 1942.

Reference:	THB 1/2
Collection:	DUNDEE ROYAL INFIRMARY
Date:	1826-1946
Description:	Annual reports, giving statistics.

Reference:	THB 1/3/3
Collection:	Dundee Royal Infirmary
Date:	1926
Description:	See entries 29 April - 13 May for reference to General Strike.

Reference:	THB 1/5
Collection:	DUNDEE ROYAL INFIRMARY
Date:	1842-1901
Description:	Admissions and discharge registers, giving patient's name, occupation, residence, by whom recommended, nature of illness, result of treatment, admission and discharge dates, and (until 1858) nationality.

Reference:	THB 7/6/10(40)
Collection:	ROYAL DUNDEE LIFF HOSPITAL
Date:	1914
Description:	Copy letter, November, from attendants at Gowrie House to chairman, Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum, regarding their wish for an increase in wages, with report of Dr William Tuach MacKenzie, medical superintendent. Includes table, January, showing salaries of staff at Scottish district asylums.

Reference:	THB 7/7/5(1)
Collection:	ROYAL DUNDEE LIFF HOSPITAL
Date:	1831-1849
Description:	House book. Dundee Lunatic Asylum. Includes wages and provisions.

Reference:	THB 7/9
Collection:	ROYAL DUNDEE LIFF HOSPITAL
Date:	1848-1950
Description:	Staff records. Include registers of probationary service, establishment registers, registers of leaving certificates, registers of attendants, registers of non-pensionable servants, sickness registers and wages books.

Reference:	THB 8/7
Collection:	STRATHMARTINE HOSPITAL
Date:	1915-1947
Description:	Staff records. Include registers of probationary service and miscellaneous correspondence about appointments.

Reference:	THB 9/5/2-3
Collection:	DUNDEE GENERAL HOSPITALS (BOARD OF MANAGEMENT)
Date:	1982, 1984
Description:	Annual Statistical Reports. Tayside Health Board Management Services Division.

Reference:	THB 14/2
Collection:	MARYFIELD HOSPITAL
Date:	1964-1974
Description:	Accident books (staff).

Reference:	THB 20/3
Collection:	Arbroath Infirmary
Date:	1845-1956
Description:	Admissions and Discharge Registers, including War Casualties Register, and Hospital Registers for Arbroath Burgh and District Joint Epidemic Hospital, Arbroath Public Health Hospital, and Little Cairnie Hospital.

Reference:	UR-SF 2/3
Collection:	PROFESSOR ALEXANDER DAVID PEACOCK
Date:	1886 - 1976
Description:	Bound volume of papers on lice. 1916 - 1920. 15 papers on various topics include references to lice during WWI.

Reference:	UR-SF 2/4
Collection:	PROFESSOR ALEXANDER DAVID PEACOCK
Date:	1886 - 1976
Description:	Bound volume of papers on trench fever, by various authors. 1917 - 1923.

Reference:	UR-SF 2/6(3)
Collection:	PROFESSOR ALEXANDER DAVID PEACOCK
Date:	1886 - 1976
Description:	Studies in relation to malaria I. The geographical distribution of Anopheles in relation to the Former Distribution of Ague in England, by George Nuttall, Louis Cobbett and T. Strangeways-Pigg. Reprinted from Pathology Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, c 1900.

Reference:	UR-SF 2/12/1(6)
Collection:	PROFESSOR ALEXANDER DAVID PEACOCK
Date:	[1888]-1938
Description:	Fifty Years Ago and Now; a presidential address delivered by Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson on the occasion of the Fiftieth Annual General Meeting of the Grey Lodge Settlement Association.

Reference:	UR-SF 2/18/1(5)
Collection:	PROFESSOR ALEXANDER DAVID PEACOCK
Date:	[1886-early 1900s]
Description:	Social Conditions in Dundee. Account of the work of Dundee Social Union, particularly that of Mary Lily Walker and founding of Dundee Medical School. 1976.

Reference:	UR-SF 15/1/12
Collection:	PROF ARCHIBALD D CAMPBELL
Date:	1939 and 1949 - 1961
Description:	Tables showing numbers of insured employees, registered unemployed and unfilled vacancies in Dundee, Broughty Ferry, St Andrews, Arbroath and Forfar Employment Exchanges.

Reference:	UR-SF 15/1/16
Collection:	PROF ARCHIBALD D CAMPBELL
Date:	1959
Description:	Compensation for redundant operatives agreement.

Reference:	UR-SF 15/3/13
Collection:	PROF ARCHIBALD D CAMPBELL
Date:	1953
Description:	Paper on "Trade Unions and Wages" by J D M Bell. Typescript 8 pages.

Reference:	UR-SF 15/4
Collection:	PROF ARCHIBALD D CAMPBELL
Date:	1921 - 1972
Description:	Copies of industrial agreements, pamphlets including printed copies of constitution and rules and/or national agreements on wages and working conditions in respect of various Trade Unions.

Reference:	UR-SF 15/6/1, 6
Collection:	PROF ARCHIBALD D CAMPBELL
Date:	various
Description:	2 reviews, one on Glasgow boys and one on the condition of the working class in England.

Reference:	UR-SF 39/1
Collection:	Andrew McLaren Carstairs, Lecturer in Economic History, University of Dundee
Date:	1911 - 1951
Description:	Character and distribution of the Industrial Population in the Tayside area. Copy report by A M Carstairs.

Reference:	Br MS 2/2/4
Collection:	Brechin Diocesan Manuscripts
Date:	1649-1700
Description:	"Memorialls" of William Drummond (younger): diary of accidents and illnesses.