The Old Lewis House: A View from 1902
by admin • 17 February 2012 • Health & Food, Life in Uig • 2 Comments

The Report on the Social Conditions of the People of Lewis (1902) by the Crofters Commission gives a detailed account of the traditional Lewis blackhouse, which agitated the minds of reformers from Sir James Matheson onward, and the measures taken from about 1880 to improve it, particularly with regard to sanitation.
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