NEWS FROM THE MEWS 11
1859
MELANCHOLY CASE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY AND DAILY EXPRESS.
Sir,—Permit me, through the medium of your journal, to inquire if there is such a person as a police surgeon in this city, and it is his duty to attend to persons found in the streets or in the common-stairs in a state of insensibility, and likewise if it is the duty of policemen to call him to such?[1]