William Robertson

m.d. of Glasgow in 1891 and the d.p.h. in 1893. His first Public Health appointment was in Perth and he was also medical officer to the Burgh of Auchterarder. Then he transferred to Paisley, where his energetic administration succeeded in stamping out the recurrent epidemics of typhoid which attacked that town. In 1904 Dr Robertson was appointed M.O.H. to the Port of Leith, where, amongst other things, he had to deal with small epidemics of smallpox and plague in the crews of foreign ships. When the boundaries of Edinburgh were extended, Dr Robertson became deputy M.O.H. for the city