Details for Scabies in Edinburgh from 1815 to 2000
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Scabies in Edinburgh from 1815 to 2000
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The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) was founded in 1729. Since then it has moved three times, in 1741, 1880 and 2002. During the last move dermatology records thought to have been destroyed in 19361 were found. They go back to 1906 and lie at the heart of this paper. Their discovery triggered an analysis of other Edinburgh health records, from which details of large numbers of patients with skin infections and infestations, including nearly 16 000 with scabies, have been harvested. A complex picture emerges of their interacting epidemiology in Edinburgh over a period of nearly two centuries through the 'sanitary awakening' of the nineteenth century to the present day.