Entries for 1867
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June 1867:
- 10 January 1867: Short of fresh provisions amid Arctic ice, the surgeon of the Diana of Hull decides to blame (Yorkshire) tea for symptoms of scurvy among the crew
- 14 January 1867: Clifford Allbutt of the Leeds Infirmary writes to the Medical Times praising his five-minute Celsius pocket clinical thermometer
- 28 February 1867: The lawyer of Thomas Higginbottom, a Dewsbury baker, tells magistrates that his client’s previous conviction for sexual assault should not count against him
- 2 March 1867: Anthony Cogan, the (Irish?) keeper of a lodging house, nine pigs, and a donkey, appears before Leeds magistrates, despite the efforts of the Pig Protection Society
- 2 March 1867: Zachariah Barton, “a tall, sanctified-looking man,” appears before Driffield magistrates for “expounding the gospel”
- 3 March 1867: Robbed by a young Leeds prostitute, the elderly captain of a Goole boat keeps his shirt on
- 26 April 1867: In a requiem to Hull’s whaling industry, the Diana bears the corpse of Captain Gravill into port at the end of its fateful Arctic voyage
- 2 June 1867: Dr Clifford Allbutt tells the Epidemiological Society that the market will not provide decent housing for Leeds’s poorest