Skip to main content

Sexual Health

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

6.53 Female, Married, 35-44yrs, Hysteria, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/6
Scope and Contents

"Seen at OPC and admitted. Diagnosis Hysteria. Married 7 weeks before admission, c/o dyspareunia, behaviour otherwise hysterical. Small cottage, clean, not overcrowded."

Dates: Other: May 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 6

13.31 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, High grade mental defective, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/12
Scope and Contents

"IQ of 72. [Female informant] says she is absolutely silly. She developed osteomyelitis. Now at home doing nothing. Dr confirms - very dull. Contracted vulvovaginitis. Father had a gonococcal infection. Inspector confirms - he thinks she never got a chance."


Relatives in survey: Father 13.32

Dates: September 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 13

28.47 Female, Married, 35-44 yrs, Dull and backward, Hysteria, October 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/27
Scope and Contents

"Off work for 2 years with swollen ankles. Mentally subnormal, pesters the life out of Dr, won't lie up, always wandering the streets. Sterile, had a d. and c. and insifflation which made no difference. Mental. PAO - filthy woman."


Relatives in survey: Husband 28.49, Sibling 28.219

Dates: Other: October 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 28

28.81 Female, Single, 25-34 yrs, Psychopathic personality, Dull and backward, October 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/27
Scope and Contents "This is the simpleton of [Area 28], very very simple, no morals, went with all the soldiers until they were paraded and told not to touch her. Ran away and came back saying she was married which was untrue. Has not had any children - has a profuse vaginal discharge. Mother, 50. Father, large fat, red-faced man, almost stutters. Sister intelligent but neurotic, always ahs the doctor when she is home on holiday, can't keep well. PAO: Queer kind of girl, goes the pace, sister peculiar too....
Dates: Other: October 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 28

28.101 Female, Separated or divorced, 25-34 yrs, Hysteria, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/27
Scope and Contents

"This woman was in a motor accident, had a fractured pelvis and a ruptured bladder. Has complained of pain in bladder ever since, especially on passing water. Has been seen by several specialists who say there is no reason for it. Also complains of terrific pains 1-2 days after intercourse. Is refusing to live with her husband who is threatening divorce proceedings. House fairly clean. No children, one miscarriage."


Relatives in survey: Aunt 28.59

Dates: Other: September 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 28

28.186 Female, Married, 45-54 yrs, Hysteria, October 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/27
Scope and Contents

"Dr has never stopped attending this woman. She suffers from chronic phlebitis and has fibroids but is as well always short of breath, dizzy, feeling done. Can't walk properly. Virgo intacta. Husband has a good job, moody."

Dates: Other: October 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 28

Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, 1940

 File
Identifier: GD51/10/1/1
Scope and Contents

Pamphlets from the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene: 'Our Reply to the War Office' (on state-sanctioned brothels); and 'Facts About Prostitution: with some notes on '"affairs"'.

Dates: 1940
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / Scottish Eastern Association, Medical Women's Federation / Medical conference papers and ephemera / Illustrations and pamphlets

Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Programme Board Annual Report , 2002-2023

 Item
Identifier: LHB56/3/1/15/5
Scope and Contents

Report by Yvonne Kerr, Strategic Programme Manager, Public Health and Health Policy; Steff Kaye, Assistant Programme Manager Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses. Concentrates on work of and services provided by key partners of the NHS Lothian Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Programme Board, and covers: sexual wellbeing; access to relevant services; work with young people; women's health; strategies to eliminate transfer of HIV and hepatitis C; and data on service use.

Dates: coverage: 2002-2023
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive / NHS Lothian / Public Health and Health Policy / Reports / Reports