It caused some controversy then, too; the member for Lincolnshire, Spalding somewhat fatuously argued against the measure on the basis that a report he had seen demonstrated that there was less incidence of disease where it was not reported.By 1897 and the passage of the Public Health (Scotland) Bill, the Irish author Bram Stoker had just published "Dracula"; the first fingerprint bureau had opened in, curiously, Calcutta in India; the word "computer" had been used for the first time in connection with an electronic device; Anthony Eden was born; and Queen Victoria had celebrated...