Scope and Contents Case summaries, charts, contact sheets, BCG vaccination consent forms, reports and correspondence relating to female housewife from east Edinburgh aged 25 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: cough and pregnancy. Family...

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Case summaries, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 31 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: diabetes mellitus and pregnant. No family history of tuberculosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Case summaries, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female housewife from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: pulmonary tuberculosis and pregant. No...

Scope and Contents INTVEE was first occupier of her flat, moving in in 1947. There was nothing to the west of her block, unmade road, no shops, no school. When asked about settling in she is quoted as saying "Oh I cried every night for weeks", but INTVER says the only reasons she gives for this is being pregnant at the time and the handles on the doors falling off. Only one of the families apart from her own is still there out of the original six. Two went back to the areas they came from. She says the other...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Housing; neighbours; family relations and rolesl; personal health.Housing: Owner occupier of ground floor flat in a demi-semi-detached. Previously lived in a flat in Gorgie but disliked tenement life and wanted a garden for their child so moved to Pilton. Husband on a monthly salary and has papered the living room and made alterations to the kitchen.Neighbours: Neighbours are pleasant and she knows them to say hello to but doesn't think its a...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband and four children ages ranging from 3 to 19. They have been in their house for 5 years, prior to that they lived in a prefab for 12 years. She did not want to live in a flat because they reminded her of hospitals, she had suffered from TB and was a patient for 3 months. She was very anxious during her last pregnancy that she would die in childbirth or that there would be something wrong with the child. she has less patience with her younger children than she did...

Scope and Contents Planned interview to discuss child birth and child rearing without children present. INTVEE's husband is helpful around the house and while she does the dressing, feeding and changing he can and will do all these things. The only thing he won’t do is the washing although he'll hang it up and take it in. She shops and cleans in the morning and leaves lunch for her husband, who works nights, before going to work in town. He will also do the shopping but will not carry the shopping basket and...

Scope and Contents INTVEEs were previously corporation tenants in North Edinburgh but have recently purchased a flat elsewhere in the city with a mortgage from the Woolwich Building Society. Female INTVEE's mother was anxious they move before having children. She is pregnant and will have the baby in the Western, she had wanted to go to Simpson's but didn't request this until 11 weeks which was too late. She has heard that Simpson's provide classes early on but the Western doesn't have anything. She thinks...