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Chorea

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Involuntary, forcible, rapid, jerky movements that may be subtle or become confluent, markedly altering normal patterns of movement. Hypotonia and pendular reflexes are often associated. Conditions which feature recurrent or persistent episodes of chorea as a primary manifestation of disease are referred to as CHOREATIC DISORDERS. Chorea is also a frequent manifestation of BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 96 Collections and/or Records:

33.53 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Chorea, July 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/32
Scope and Contents

"This girl has had chorea. Good home conditions. Inharmonious - parents won't speak to each other. Dr says she has a ferocious temper, forceful. Her mother is just as bad, at the root of the trouble."


Relatives in survey: Mother 33.54

Dates: Other: July 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 33

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

 Item
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
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

4.145 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Chorea, Low grade mental defective, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/4
Scope and Contents

"This lad is an old chorae, can neither read or write. Works on his father's farm. Clean house, not overcrowded, very respectable people."

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 4

9.146 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Chorea, February 1944

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/9
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 9. Indexed.

Dates: Other: February 1944
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 9

9.233 Female, Single, 25-34 yrs, Chorea, February 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/9
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 9. Indexed.

Dates: Other: February 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 9

16.269 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Chorea, January 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents

"This child has chorea, very fidgetty. Nurse says this child is small but well looked after."


Relatives in survey: Brother 16.270, cousin 16.50

Dates: Other: January 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 16

23.257 Female, Single, 25-34 yrs, High grade mental defective, Chorea, May 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/22
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 23. Indexed.

Dates: Other: May 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 23

28.108 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Chorea, September 1946

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

"IQ 78, also has chorea. She and her brother are wild children, always getting into trouble. Unsatisfactory family. Seldom at school. Scabies. Mother must be soft, keeps a filthy house, no vices, has had several illegitimate children. 3 rooms for 6, filthy, inharmonious."


Relatives in survey: Siblings 28.109, 28.87

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

28.128 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Chorea, Dull and backward, October 1946

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

"IQ 75 but should have been better. Chorea in 1942. Was average in most things, arithmetic pretty weak. Malnutrition. Slightly deaf. Father drinks a good deal. Mother about 45. Big family. Thought to be delivering papers. House very overcrowded, not clean - 2 rooms for 7. PAO: Father doesn't drink such a lot. Has been off work for over a year - face misshapen - mastoid. Very unsatisfactory lot."


Relatives in survey: Father 28.129, mother 28.130

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

29.220 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Chorea, Stammering, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/28
Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 29. Indexed.

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 29

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