Tag: spotted fever

Spotted Fever in Blantyre, 1907

In February 1907, a somewhat uneasy feeling began to manifest in Blantyre when it became known that two cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis or “spotted fever” had claimed the lives of two Blantyre residents. In one case, that of a boy, aged 9 from Chamber’s Buildings on Glasgow Road, he was taken to the hospital in […]