Archives Catalogue

138 Stirling women master list (prepared by Marcia Kahn)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 8
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains datasets specific to female study respondents. Also contains master list of female Stirling study respondents.

#186 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — fourth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 18
Item
November 1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's fourth annual report on the Stirling County study.

1959 trip to Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 8
File
1959

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains documents relating to Alexander Leighton's 1959 trip to Nigeria. Includes a photograph, several bundles of research notes, schedules, graphic materials, and patient medical notes. Includes an article from the New York Times on the Nigerian election, and no. 10 of the Western Nigerian Illustrated quarterly publication featuring an article about psychiatric treatment at the Aro Hospital. Also includes an envelope labelled 'thought disorder pills' containing five spherical pills.

1961 - 1963 comparisons of ABCD distributions and RIDITs

MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 9
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of correspondence between Jane Murphy and Veronica Shaw (?) on the subject of ABCD distributions in Yoruba data.

1961 Nigerian HOS analysis (pertinent to 1961 - 1963 comparison)

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 12
File
1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memos and a letter regarding HOS data scores and ABCD ratings of Nigerian data. Also contains pages of coding information and statistical calculations.

1961 RIDIT values

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 15
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of RIDIT value tables for urban and rural sample data.

1965 - 1966 re-abstracting Yoruba manual

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 13
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a re-abstracting manual for the Yoruba study data to update the research goal to compare urban and rural mental health and limit bias in analysis. File also includes respondents' answers to health surveys and a memo regarding evaluation of Yoruba abstracts.

1967 meeting on Yoruba study

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 12
File
1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains materials from a meeting on the Yoruba studies, including charts and datasets demonstrating psychiatrist's agreement analysis and findings and ABCD analysis.

A handbook for the psychiatric evaluation of personal data as developed by the Stirling County study and the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry / by Alexander H. Leighton and Dorothea C. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 17
File
1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a large handbook on psychiatric evaluation as written by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton for the Stirling County study.

A review : Nova Scotia mental health system and changes required

MS-13-30, SF Box 65, Folder 12, Item 11
Item
[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.

A study of resistance to psychiatric epidemiological interviewing among the Yoruba / by Zebulon C. Taintor

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 5
File
1962 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains documents relating to Taintor's study and two drafts of the full study text. Includes mental and physical health surveys and datasets, interview fieldnotes, and statistics and calculations. Also contains a letter from Laurel Hodgden regarding the usability of the data.

A survey of general physicians : manual for the psychiatric interview and use of the summary sheet : the Stirling County Study / Jane M. Murphy, PhD

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 2
File
1995

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File includes copies of "A Survey of General Physicians : Manual for Participating General Practitioners" and "Appendix A : Nomenclature and Classification in the Stirling County Study."

A tropical insane asylum / A.P. Reid : [correspondence, facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 33
Item
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.

Administration and organization

Subseries
1961 - 1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists of various documents and correspondence relating to travel, work, permits, and finances for the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies.

Adolf Meyer's psychobiology course outlines

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 3
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains course outlines, teaching materials, and exam guidelines for Adolf Meyer's course on psychobiology and ergasiology.

Advertisement for professional counselling services by phone with Ken Belanger

MS-15-11.2020-016, Box 1, Folder 11
File
[1993?]

Part of Ron and Bryan Garnett-Doucette fonds

File contains one flyer advertising phone counselling services with Ken Belanger. At the time, this was Atlantic Canada's only professional phone counselling service for members of the LGBT community.

Affiliated studies using the 1961 and 1963 study data

Subseries
1960 - 1973

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists of affiliated studies by other authors that used the data from the 1961 Cornell-Aro and 1963 role of women studies. Contains some articles written by staff members of the 1961 and 1963 studies.

Age and sex distribution for Yoruba-Stirling comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 5
File
[1964?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of two copies of a chart comparing age and sex data for Yoruba villages and Stirling County.

Age by ABCD RIDITS for 1961 and 1963 samples

MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 10
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on RIDIT values and ABCD analysis, and computer dataset printouts.

Age, religion, and education data for 1961 village women (Murphy's ethos paper)

MS-13-86, Box 16, Folder 12
File
1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of computer dataset printouts for information on female respondents.

Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

MS-13-86
Fonds
1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

Alexander Leighton's 1968 re-evaluations (n=25) and 54 PJ analysis card and codebook

MS-13-86, Box 17, Folder 6
File
[1968?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on re-evaluation of data from the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies, Also includes computer dataset printouts.

An assessment of mental health patterns in a Nigerian factory: the Nigerian Tobacco Co. study / by Karin Himmelstrand

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 21
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Two drafts of Himmelstrand's study analyzing the mental health of Nigerian factory workers.

Analysis card and codebook 99PX (n=138)

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 2
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printout datasets of Stirling County statistics for female respondents. Also includes analysis card for Stirling county female psychiatric and social data.

Analysis of cultural change / by Fred Ilfield

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 5
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains printouts of computer code, and graphs and datasets analyzing socioeconomic acculturation of Yoruba women. File also includes three copies of Ilfield's study "Acculturation levels and mental health of 120 educated Yoruba women."

Analysis of hemoglobin data

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 7
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on medical data relevant to hemoglobin. Includes lists of Sahli percentages and charts comparing averages. Also includes a memo regarding summary data from random village hemoglobin samples.

Analysis of medical data

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 8
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of medical data code for the psychiatric questionnaire.

Analysis of sociocultural variables in traditional - modern, integrated - disintegrated villages

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 16
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of several charts of statistics and calculations related to demographic and sociocultural data from study villages.

Analysis of variance for age, sex, and place of residence

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 13
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains data tables and subsequent analyses of sex and age data for urban and rural respondents

Analysis of variance for interaction of integration and enlightenment defined only by education and literacy for 1964 paper on orthopsychiatry

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 3
File
1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of analysis charts and tables for village age, enlightenment, and integration data. Also includes a telegram regarding villages studied.

Analysis of variance level for integration (controlled for age and sex)

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 12
File
1961 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of charts and datasets comparing statistics and analyzing variation in results.

Background HOS scores for rural and urban women, see SP 320

MS-13-86, Box 18, Folder 21
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes and calculations for correlation and HOS scores for female Yoruba respondents.

Background impairment and caseness, Yoruba 4, see 320

MS-13-86, Box 18, Folder 20
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes and calculations for impairment and caseness RIDITs for all female Yoruba respondents.

Beaver study correspondence

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 1
File
1931 - 1933

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File is loosely organized into two sections: Nova Scotia beaver and Norway beaver. Both sections contain correspondence to and from government officials, biologists, academics, and industry consultants regarding research for and publication of Alexander Leighton's study on beaver mental characteristics. The Norway section also contains excerpts from Norwegian newspapers. There is also a set of handwritten notes titled "Outline for study of the Beaver: D. Cross & A.H. Leighton."

Bibliography of the Stirling County study

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 8
File
2007

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a list of sources used in the Stirling County study between 1950 and 2007.

Bibliography of the Stirling County Study and coordinated investigations in psychiatric epidemiology

MS-13-86, Box 82, Folder 14
File
1982; 2007; 2017

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a mimeographed report removed from a three-ring binder.

Bruce Oland's correspondence relating to mentally retardation

MS-2-135.2019-081, Box 79, Folder 10
File
1961-1983

Part of Oland family fonds

This file consists of correspondence and reference material relating to mental retardation. This file contains correspondence to the Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded - Nova Scotia Division.

Card 19 printouts