University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

"This boy couldn't speak at school,looked hydrocephalic. Can read but is very very backward. Hopeless at putting things down on paper, writing very poor. Nice boy, no trouble. Parents probably cousins. Illegitimate. Family has a reputation for being immoral. Nurse says this child was 7 or 8 before he could talk but is now coming on. Housing clean, not overcrowded, inharmonious."

Relatives in survey: mother 17.24, siblings 17.25, 17.18

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 1 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: squint; vomiting; mental retardation; hydrocephalus; and medulloblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Correspondence, notes and typed case summary relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 11 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: ?infantile encephalitis; hemianopia; intellectual disability; and hydrocephalus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 7 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: mental deficiency; hypertonus; and hydrocephalus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; blindness; optic atrophy; and mental deficiency. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes, typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 10 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial haemorrhage; hydrocephalus; mental deficiency; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Report, typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombosis; intellectual impairment; congenital hydrocephalus; and hemiparesis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence and notes relating to male patient aged 3 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: meningitis; hydrocephalus; intellectual deficiency; and ataxia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; vomiting; and mental backwardness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes, report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 14 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: intellectual backwardness; hydrocephalus; Klippel-Feil syndrome; fits; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.