2018 has seen the 100th anniversary of the great flu / influenza pandemic, which killed millions at the end of the great war and also continued into 1919 and 1920. Local newspapers reported on the impact of the pandemic, with schools and cinemas being closed and local medical services being in some cases overwhelmed. For details of doctors in practice during that period, information can be gleaned from the medical registers (1859-1959) and medical directories (1845-1952), these can be found on Ancestry. com. They can also be useful if a doctor is mentioned on your relative’s death certificate.
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also has the UK & Ireland nursing registers 1898-1968 and Scottish applications 1921-1945. For local health board records you need to contact the relevant archives for the Lothians (Edinburgh and East and Mid and West Lothian): www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk, Grampians (Aberdeen, Banff, Kincardine, Moray): https://scot.sh/hsgrampian, Glasgow and Clydeside: https://scot.sh/hsglasgow and Dundee: www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/thecollections. For other locations try using Google and enter the location name and the words ‘health board archives’. These can include hospital and asylum records.