Stuttering

30.63 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, Stammering, November 1946

Item

Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/29

Scope and Contents

"This girl led the schoolmaster a dance, very impudent, clever. Now working in the co-op. Has a bit of a stammer."

Siblings: 30.64

Dates: Other: November 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 30

31.24 Male, Single, 25-34 yrs, High grade mental defective, Stammering, November 1945

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/30

Scope and Contents

"This man is definitely MD. Was dischared from the army, discharged from the railway, recently involved in a theft. Has a stammer and could not pronounce his name. Dr says he is MD, has had meningitis. Does silly things, pinched bombs and detonators."

Dates: Other: November 1945

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 31

34.16 Male, Married, 55-64 yrs, Dull and Backward, Stammering, January 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/33

Scope and Contents

"This man has a bad stammer, puffs when speaking, has a weakness. Runs away and hides when people go to the farm where he works. Gets drunk and recites Burns and argues +++. PAO - tough, dirty, an awful shop. Was a tramp."

Relatives in survey: Children 34.18, 34.17

Dates: Other: January 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 34

35.75 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Stammering, June 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/34

Scope and Contents

"A bad stammer, thought to be of psychological origin. Illegitimate, mother about 40, very nice, says she stammered as a girl. Good home circumstances. Minister confirms stammer but thinks the boy is all right. Dr - stammer not too bad, bright boy. Nothing wrong with him or his family."

Dates: Other: June 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 35

36.32 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, Stammering, March 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/35

Scope and Contents

"IQ 70-. Has a very bad stammer. Quite a sensible child. Illegitimate child. Family circumstances said to be difficult."

Relatives in survey: Mother 36.37

Dates: Other: March 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 36

36.49 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Chorea, Stammering, June 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/35

Scope and Contents

"Has great difficulty in co-ordination, gets his books in a terrible mess, can't make the pencil do what he wants. Speech very bad. Mother was criminally assaulted when he was a baby. Clean house."

Relatives in survey: Mother 36.48 siblings 36.50, 36.51

Dates: Other: June 1947