- MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 2
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- June 30, 1957
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Item is Alexander Leighton's seventh annual report on the Stirling County study.
- MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 16
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- 1952
Item is Alexander Leighton's second annual report on the Stirling County study.
- MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 15
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- 1951
Item is Alexander Leighton's first annual report on the Stirling County study.
- MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 3
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- June 30, 1958
Item is Alexander Leighton's eighth annual report on the Stirling County study.
- MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 1
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- June 30, 1956
Item is Alexander Leighton's sixth annual report on the Stirling County study.
- MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 19
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- June 30, 1955
Item is Alexander Leighton's fifth annual report on the Stirling County study.
- MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 17
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- 1953
Item is Alexander Leighton's third annual report on the Stirling County study.
School phobia : a review / Alexander Murchison : [manuscript]
- MS-13-30, SF Box 66, Folder 1, Item 2
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- 1970
Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds
Item is a paper written by Alexander Murchison in December 1970, outlining the "acute psychiatric emergency" of school phobia, suggesting that it is more complicated than being simply "separation anxiety." He defines the phobia, outlines the clinical features and symptoms, discusses the role of separation in the condition, and addresses potential treatments.
Letter from Alexander Leighton to his father, 1938
- MS-13-86, Box 112, Folder 1
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- August 5, 1938
Item is a letter written to his father from Alexander Leighton during his residency at Johns Hopkins. The letter addresses his sister Gertrude's mental health and details about equipment for a film project.
Letter by Jason M. Mack concerning the mental health of George Roy
- MS-13-87, SF Box 49, Folder 8
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- 1916
Item is a letter written by Jason M. Mack addressed to any constables or police officers of the town of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. The letter involves the mental health of and the request for detainment of George Roy, a fisherman from Liverpool, who had been declared of unsound mind by two local medical practitioners. Item also contains an envelope addressed to William Winters.
Mack, Jason M.
- MS-13-30, SF Box 66, Folder 1, Item 3
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- [early 1970s]
Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds
Item is a draft manuscript written by Alexander Murchison and T.A.H. McCulloch (of Canadian Forces Hospital Halifax) in the early 1970s. The item addresses a case study of an 18-year-old "leading seaman, unmarried and of Ojibwa Indian extraction" admitted to the psychiatric unit of Canadian Forces Hospital in Halifax after a sudden onset of psychosis experienced by the patient shortly after his vessel left Halifax in 1968.
Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, March 7, 1923
- MS-2-82, Box 9, Folder 85, Item 12
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- March 7, 1923
Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds
Item consists of handwritten correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated March 7, 1923, from Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, frankly discussing his struggles with his recovery amid fears he is "slowly becoming a wreck; [often] feeling useless and frightened" and angered by not being told his poor prognosis and difficulty of recovery back in 1917.
A tropical insane asylum / A.P. Reid : [correspondence, facsimile]
- MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 33
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- January 30, 1903
Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds
Item consists of a facsimile of correspondence submitted by A.P. Reid to the March 1903 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XV, No. 3), dated January 30, 1903, on the topic of a Jamaican asylum.
A review : Nova Scotia mental health system and changes required
- MS-13-30, SF Box 65, Folder 12, Item 11
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- [early 1970s]
Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds
Item is an undated review of the current Nova Scotia mental health system, as well as an outline of required changes to the system, compiled by Alexander Murchison in the early 1970s. The item provides a brief outline of present mental health programs and facilities in the province — the Cape Breton Mental Health Centre in Sydney, the Eastern Counties Mental Health Centre in Antigonish, the Pictou County Mental Health Centre in New Glasgow, the Cumberland County Mental Health Centre in Amherst, the Cobequid Mental Health Centre in Truro, the Funday [sic] Mental Health Centre in Wolfville, the Digby-Annapolis Mental Health Centre in Digby, the program at the Yarmouth Regional Hospital, and the South Shore Mental Health Centre in Bridgewater — as well as mental and public hospital services — Nova Scotia Hospital, Abbie J. Lane Memorial Hospital, Halifax County Hospital, and Kings County Hospital — and provides recommendations on how to improve the province-wide program addressing mental health. Item contains a few inked and whited-out corrections.
- MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 18
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- November 1954
Item is Alexander Leighton's fourth annual report on the Stirling County study.