University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Scope and Contents

"Meningitis 6 years ago, getting increasingly deaf since, but M[ental] D[efective] anyhow. Has minor fits - loses consciousness for a few minutes and becomes rigid. Associated with her periods. Does not get a proper wage but seem squite satisfied - working in the Convalescent Home. Sister, very timid, living with her. Parents dead? [Female informant] considered that there was an hysterical element in the family. Seen by PSW."

Scope and Contents

"This man used to take fits, now all right. Farm worker. Sergeant confirms that he is a backward kind of character, unconscious looking. Dr say he is not epileptic, but has VDH. Very dull."

Scope and Contents

"IQ 70, at Loreburn Street. Has a stammer, dull and backward, flares into tempers, left-handed. Thought to have had a fit."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 39.46, 39.47, 39.48 Mother 39.45

Scope and Contents

"This child had a fit just before Christmas - was thought to have meningitis but didn't. Housing very good, clean, not overcrowded. Nurse says she was always a backward child, very slow to learn to speak. Dr confirms that she is subnormal. Her convulsive seizures at Christmas were probably hysterical - she had had too much excitement."

Relatives in survey: Father 43.11

Scope and Contents Case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from north Edinburgh and Leith aged 0 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: convulsions, acute bronchitis (non tuberculous), meningism. Family history of tuberculosis. Nonsurgical treatment given, including...