In January 1893, the Blantyre Parochial Board discussed Andrew Hamill’s death after a wrongful diagnosis of enteric fever by Dr. M’Pherson. Instead of hospital care, he was declared insane and sent to Greenock Asylum, where he died after four weeks. The governor criticized the initial misdiagnosis and handling of the case.

Irene Welsh messaged me recently, saying, “My grandmother was born on 1/1/1900 in Larkfield High Blantyre. Her name was Agnes Hamill. I wondered if there was any written or photographic records of this? Her parents lived in one of the white cottages at the bottom of the hill at the Cather across from Hoolits Nest. […]