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From: "Lilly" <>
Subject: Reply to Lilian Campbell
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:17:40 +0300
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Lilian, Thank you for the interesting information on Scotland. Is there a
similar way to access data on England, Northern Ireland, etc. Please let
the list know.
Thank you, Lillian Kathleen Martin

From: "Lilian Campbell" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 2:56 PM
Subject: Statistical Accounts - Scotland


> Another useful online feature of the 1791-1799 Statistical Account for
> Scotland is that there is a fairly detailed index. I don't know how
> complete it is but it is very useful.
>
> I had quite a response offline to my postings about the Stat. Acc. and
> some who had difficulty finding their way around the site appreciated
> the precise instructions for getting at the info, so I hope you who are
> computer experts will bear with those of us who are not - I include
> myself among the latter.
>
> Access the Stat. Accounts by going to http://edina.ed.ac.uk/StatAcc/
>
> Click on 'Access to Statistical Accounts'
>
> Click on the tab at the top of the page 'Table of Contents'
>
> Click on '1791-99'
>
> Scroll down to 'General Index' near the bottom of the page.
>
> Click on the part you want.
>
> To give an example of how useful the index is - under 'Inoculation' in
> Part 1 of the Index, there is almost a full page of references with some
> detail of what aspect is discussed in each reference - 'success of'
> 'expense of defrayed by Heritors..' 'neglect of, pernicious consequences
> attending' 'prejudices against' 'instructions of divinity students in
> the art of, recommended' 'performed by parents on their children'
> 'performed by ministers' 'recommended from the pulpit' etc.
>
> To read the entries go back to the page with tabs, click on 'Search',
> enter the word 'Inoculation' and over 100 references come up.
>
> There is one very interesting article in the Thurso Statistical Account.
> The doctor gives a full account of the problems that he had overcome,
> with the help of the local ministers, to persuade the population to
> accept inoculation because of the alarming mortality rates associated
> with smallpox in the district.
>
> Unfortunately the 1845 Statistical Account does not have an index.
>
> Lilian
>
>
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