Adding basic Wikidata info for "Edinburgh plague of 1585" got me looking at the level of data for other infectious outbreaks, and finding it a wee bit bare.
Even the relatively recent "1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak", which put Aberdeen in lockdown, is scant on Wikidata.
And there was nothing on the "Glasgow plague of 1900-1901", the northernmost point of the Third Plague Pandemic, so I created an item.
The inability to track outbreaks by time and place feels like a data gap, and even more so when events like 19th century cholera epidemics triggered civic initiatives such as piping clean water supply into Glasgow, celebrated in the building of fountains, etc. it would be good to have "deeper" data to track outbreaks.
A problem with deepening data is how to specify an outbreak location. Politico-geographical changes happen, so it is anachronistic to anchor a past outbreak in a present council area. And if the relevant agency would be a health board anyway, these straddle council administrative areas. So the appropriate data and the queries to retrieve and present past event are complex.
