ABSTRACT
The Perthshire Nursing Federation was formed in December 1919. The separate authorities have continued, but the educational and public health medical staff were amalgamated and placed under the executive control in Perthshire of its county Dr. D. J. McLeish, who formerly had been the school medical officer. In 1928 the number of deaths from tuberculosis in the landward county was 43, of which 34 were pulmonary, equivalent to a total death-rate of 0-63 per 1,000 of population. There appears to be little venereal disease in the county, but it is likely that some patients, whose home address is untraced, are treated at other centres outside the county. There is a school clinic in Perth, and much treatment of minor skin and other such ailments is carried on by nurses in different parts of the county. St. Andrews has, in nucleus at least, a State medical service, in which the private medical practitioners of the burgh play a predominant part.
