Buchanan, Sir George (1831-1895)

The result of my enquiries into the vital conditions of the operatives usually employed in the cotton manufacture, but now out of employment [in Lancashire]. Addressed to the Medical Department of the Privy Council. Author's holograph MSS. The 49 ff. copy has many corrections, and is a first draft. The second copy is a longer version, with fewer corrections. At the time of writing this Report, the cotton-workers of Lancashire were almost totally unemployed, as a result of the American Civil War, whereby the supply of cotton from the Southern States had been cut off. Buchanan's findings were incorporated in the Fifth Report to the Privy Council in 1862.

1862

1 volume 49 ff., 59 ff. 4to. & folio. 34 x 201/2 cm. Unbound. Written mostly on rectos only.

Presented 1933.

The author obtained his M.D. in London in 1855, and was physician to the London Fever Hospital 1861-1868. He was elected F.R.C.P. in 1861 and F.R.S. in 1882. He was Principle Medical Officer to the Privy Council from 1879 to 1892. [see the Dictionary of National Biography].

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).