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Disabled Persons

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Persons with physical or mental disabilities that affect or limit their activities of daily living and that may require special accommodations.

Found in 264 Collections and/or Records:

12.31 Female, Single, 35-44 yrs, Other organic psychoses, March 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/11
Scope and Contents

"This woman is "paralysed mentally and physically" - has to be pushed about in a wheeled chair, can only mumble. This condition came on when she was about 20. Parents dead."

Dates: Other: March 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 12

1.235 Male, 25-34 yrs, High grade mental defective, Physical illness or invalidism, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.

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 1

12.48 Male, Married, 45-54 yrs, Dull and backward, Physical illness or invalidism, February 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/11
Scope and Contents

"This man is "a big sumph", nothing in him, not bright, a useless character. Does not drink. Estate worker. Home conditions had been unhappy owing to his wife."


Relatives in survey: sister 12.47, wife 12.49

Dates: Other: February 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 12

1.267 Female, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, Physical illness or invalidism, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.

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 1

1.268 Female, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, Physical illness or invalidism, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.

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 1

1.300 Male, 15-24 yrs, Suspected psychiatric illness, Physical illness or invalidism, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.

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 1

1.307 Male, 45-54 yrs, High grade mental defective, Physical illness or invalidism, April 1947

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

"A labourer, considered soft and queer, hysterical. His wife gives him stinking fish in his piece. Condemned house, terrible place."

Dates: Other: April 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 1

13.12 Male, 15-24 yrs, Single, Dull and backward, Physical illness or invalidism, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/12
Scope and Contents "This boy was dullish and nervous at school; got very plump ? glandular dysfunction. Went to school but the journey was too much for him and he had to spend several months in bed with heart trouble, then returned to school till he was 14, working at his own pace. Now working on farm; is rather bent, smokes too much. Father, a shepherd. Mother 50+, decent people. Two sisters, one married, O.K. the other has T.B. Clean house, not overcrowded, fine people. No P.A. Doctor confirms - had...
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

13.18 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, Physical illness or invalidism, September 1946

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

"IQ of 73 exempt from the control exam, nearly blind."


Relatives in survey: Brother 13.16

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

1.367 Male, 45-54 yrs, Dull and backward, Physical illness or invalidism, May 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.

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 1

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