University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Scope and Contents "This child has some sort of nervous disturbance. He was sent to the Sick Children's Hospital in [area] for investigation, developed Scarlet Fever there and was paralysed to a certain extent afterwards. He is now home but backward. Teacher - he will not speak, now speaks to the other children but will not play with them, she thinks his behaviour is abnormal. He does not do what you tell him to do; can't turn up the place in a book. Can't read but has to spell every word. She can't test him...