Hi everyone,

I am looking into the "infectious library book" scare that hit Britain in the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly in Sheffield, Bradford and London. I have found articles from the 1980s by Greenberg and McLary, but does anybody have access to or know of any primary sources relating to this particular health scare from specific libraries or library patrons (e.g. copies of records kept by libraries, correspondence from library patrons, details of books being treated/destroyed)? Or failing that any more recent scholarship on the issue that they could point me towards?

Many thanks,

Dan