Minutes of a conference held at the Caledonian Hotel, Oban, on the eighth day of May, 1855, for the purpose of considering the propriety and advantage of erecting a poor's house for the district of Lorn..
M'Dougall, Dugald.
[Scotland? : s.n.,
1855.]
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Printed on light blue paper, last page blank.
Signed on page [3]: Dugd. M'Dougall, Chairman.
It was resolved that a poor house in the District would act as a test of destitution, serve as a more satisfactory provision for the comfort and care of the aged and infirm and provide employment for disabled paupers. The Lorn Combination Poorhouse was eventually erected in 1862-63 on a site at the south of Oban. After 1930 the poorhouse became the West Highland Rest Poor Law Institution, in 1948 the buildings were converted to a hospital (Dalintart).