Archives Catalogue

Proposal for interim funding to further develop a three-year health grant demonstration project concerning a new approach in delivery of health services to children and youth

MS-13-30, SF Box 66, Folder 1, Item 4
Item
[1972-1973?]

Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds

Item is an early draft proposal written by Alexander Murchison and others in 1972 or 1973, regarding funding for a health grant to improve the delivery of health services to children and youth in Nova Scotia. The proposal accompanies a report entitled "A Time to Act."

A proposal for health grant : a new approach in delivery of health services to children and youth

MS-13-30, SF Box 66, Folder 1, Item 5
Item
[1973?]

Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds

Item is an early draft proposal written by Alexander Murchison and others ca. 1973 regarding funding for a grant to improve the delivery of health services to children and youth in Nova Scotia. The proposal aims to implement several programs in Halifax County to assist the province's youth in moving "toward optimum health" by implementing the following programs: Life Development program (emphasizing proper nutrition, emotional and physical development); Day Care and Pre-School program; Teacher Training program; Community Health Nurse program; Environmental Control program (environmental effects on human growth and development); and General Training program (for professionals involved with children and adolescent care).

The group home and the community : [draft typescript]

MS-13-30, SF Box 66, Folder 1, Item 6
Item
1975

Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds

Item is a report written by Alexander Murchison, dated January 9, 1975, and presented to the Dartmouth Branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association, regarding improving group home facilities not only for adolescents and older individuals in Nova Scotia.

Group homes—let's get going : program papers from Annual Meeting of Nova Scotia Family and Child Welfare Association

MS-13-30, SF Box 66, Folder 3
File
1973

Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds

File also contains copies of presentations given at the 23 May 1973 meeting: "Why an Alternate Family? (The Child and the Group Home," by Alexander Murchison; "The Orphan and Society," by Jean Paton-Kittson; "Social Services and the Group Home," by Frank Capstick; "Democratic Perspectives on Group Home Supervision," by Ronald L. Smith; "Houseparents Forum," by Mr. and Mrs. Salvador Renaldo; "Public Relations in a Group Home Program," by A.S. Kyte; and "Funding of Group Homes," by Timothy T. Daley.

A time to act : a proposal to restructure child and adolescent programs and services, Nova Scotia

MS-13-30, SF Box 66, Folder 4
File
1973

Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds

File contains a report written in 1973 by Alexander Murchison and Edward Newell regarding a restructuring of child and adolescent programs and services in Nova Scotia to "stimulate community and government interest, participation, and action for change."

John Stewart fonds

MS-13-39
Fonds
1812 - 1943

Fonds consists of notebooks, correspondence, books, articles, a photograph, and artifacts.

Stewart, John, Lt. Col. Dr.

Elrid Gordon Young fonds

MS-13-4
Fonds
1940-1950

Fonds consists of Eldrid Young's records regarding his chemical warfare research, including correspondence, reports, notebooks, articles, and manuals. There is also his unpublished manuscript "Adventures of a Chemist in Search of Poisons," in which he recount his 25-year career as a forensic chemist.

Young, Elrid Gordon

Osler Medico-Historical Club of Halifax fonds

MS-13-46
Fonds
1921-1926

Fonds consists of medical academic papers presented to the Osler Medico-Historical Club.

The Osler Medico-Historical Club of Halifax

Grace Maternity Hospital fonds

MS-13-48, SF Box 69
Fonds
1942 - 1955

Fonds consists of reports, statistics, and photographs of the hospital.

Grace Maternity Hospital

Margaret S. DeWolfe fonds

MS-13-50
Fonds
1967-1970

Fonds consists of reports and minutes of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Research Centre for Mental Retardation (ARCMR).

DeWolfe, Margaret Stevenson

Report of an emergency meeting of the Atlantic Research Centre, June 26, 1967

MS-13-50, SF Box 63, Folder 9, Item 2
Item
1967-06-26

Part of Margaret S. DeWolfe fonds

Item consists of Margaret Dewolfe's report of an emergency meeting of the Atlantic Research Centre (ARCMR), held between I.M. MacKeigan, C.B. Stewart, W.R. Butler, and M.S. DeWolfe, on June 26th, 1967, in response to problems in obtaining funding from the Department of Health and Welfare through the "National Crusade".

Director's Report to the Board of Directors of the Atlantic Research Centre, July to December 1967

MS-13-50, SF Box 69, Folder 19, Item 4
Item
1967

Part of Margaret S. DeWolfe fonds

Item consists of Richard B. Goldbloom's report to the Board of Directors on the Activities of the Atlantic Research Centre (ARCMR) on the Centre's research from the second half of 1967.

Report on the Activities of the Atlantic Research Centre, July 1967 to June 1968

MS-13-50, SF Box 69, Folder 19, Item 5
Item
1968

Part of Margaret S. DeWolfe fonds

Item consists of Richard B. Goldbloom's annual report on the activities of the Atlantic Research Centre (ARCMR), outlining the Centre's research from the July 1967 to June 1968.

Atlantic Research Centre Progress Report, July 1968 to June 1969

MS-13-50, SF Box 69, Folder 19, Item 6
Item
1969

Part of Margaret S. DeWolfe fonds

Item consists of progress report of the research activities of the Atlantic Research Centre (ARCMR) on the Centre's research in its second year of operation, July 1968 to June 1969. Item also includes a financial report prepared by R.M. Walters.

Annual Report of the Director of the Atlantic Research Centre, July 1969 to June 1970

MS-13-50, SF Box 69, Folder 19, Item 7
Item
June 1970

Part of Margaret S. DeWolfe fonds

Item consists of the Director's report (unattributed, likely Richard B. Goldbloom) of the research activities of the Atlantic Research Centre (ARCMR) in its third year of operation, July 1969 to June 1970. Item also includes a financial report.

Charles Beecher Weld fonds

MS-13-53
Fonds
[ca. 1924] - [ca. 1979]

Fonds consists of Charles Beecher Weld's correspondence, medicine-related offprints and other textual records, records about community organizations with which he was involved, and photographs of Dalhousie University and Halifax.

Weld, Charles Beecher

Chester Stewart fonds

MS-13-61
Fonds
1932-1995

Fonds consists of papers documenting Dr. Stewart's professional career, including files on the Tupper Commission and the Hall Review Commission, research notes on aviation medicine and decompression sickness, correspondence, lectures, books, publications, photographs, and other manuscripts from his personal life and years at Dalhousie University.

Stewart, Chester B.

History of the Victoria General Hospital / H.L. Scammers

MS-13-69, SF Box 80, Folder 26
File
copied ca. 2015

Part of Thomas John (Jock) Murray fonds

Houses of the Insane - Social Influences on the formation of the Nova Scotia Hospital for the Insane by Alexa Bagnell - Supervisor Dr. TJ. Murray

MS-13-69.2018-024, Box 11, Folder 13
File
1994

Part of Thomas John (Jock) Murray fonds

Alexa Bagnell was the Hannah Institute Summer studentship in 1994.

Houses of the Insane - Social Influences on the formation of the Nova Scotia Hospital for the Insane

MS-13-69.2018-024, Box 11, Folder 13, Item 1
Item
1994

Part of Thomas John (Jock) Murray fonds

Item is a report on the Nova Scotia Hospital for the Insane by Alexa Bagnell. Dr. TJ. Murray was Alexa's Supervisor on the report. Alexa Bagnell was the Hannah Institute Summer studentship in 1994.

43rd Annual Report of the Medical Superintendent of The Nova Scotia Hospital for the Insane 1899-1900 by Dr. TJ. Murray

MS-13-69.2018-024, Box 11, Folder 13, Item 2
Item
1994

Part of Thomas John (Jock) Murray fonds

Item is an historical article by T.J. Murray.

Robert William Murray MacKay fonds

MS-13-77
Fonds
1917-1977

Fonds consists of lecture notes, administrative papers regarding the Nova Scotia Hospital, certificates of achievement, medals, and personal correspondence.

MacKay, Robert William Murray

Pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease / David G. Douglas

MS-13-8, SF Box 54, Folder 10
Item
1966

Item is a report.

Douglas, G. David

Harold L. Scammell fonds

MS-13-80
Fonds
1937-1951

Fonds consists of Harold Scammell's correspondence associated with both the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia and the Provincial Medical Board. Other papers include financial records, miscellaneous publications, personal notes and records from his years at Dalhousie University.

Scammell, Harold L.

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

Extra copies of crucial tables (C - A analysis)

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 3
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on and tables of psychiatric rating and impairment statistics. There is much comparison between Yoruba villages, Abeokuta, and Stirling County and analysis of respective physical and mental health symptoms and patterns.

"The Road" case study

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 1
File
1970

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains documents related to the case study of "The Road," an impoverished area in Stirling County.

Stirling report #66 - Social environment and psychiatric disorders : A plan for an epidemiological study

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 2
File
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report outlining the purpose, framework, objectives, and research plan for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #42 - Handbook: The Stirling County studies in community development (indicators of social disintegration)

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 3
File
1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a handbook of social and psychiatric principles to be used by social science researchers working on the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #366 - Planning statement for Stirling County study

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 10
File
1948

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a planning statement report for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #444 - Maine-Stirling county workshop report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 11
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report from a workshop in Augusta, Maine regarding the sociocultural factors and psychiatric epidemiology of the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #183 - Planning conference

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 12
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on a planning conference for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #182 - "Tooling-up" HOS for Stirling measurement

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 13
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an interim report on symptom data and measurement in the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #179 - Stirling project PCS method book

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 14
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on a method book for the Stirling County study.

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

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 15
Item
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

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

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 16
Item
1952

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

Stirling report #150 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — third annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 17
Item
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

#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.

Stirling report #218 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — fifth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 19
Item
June 30, 1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

Stirling report #367

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 6
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a typed transcription of an interview with lawyer Theriault.

Stirling report #362 - Field report on Stirling County Study field work, 1954, by Frank W. Young

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 7
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on how to delineate the sub-groups for the Stirling County Study.

Stirling report #452

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 8
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on the frame of reference for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #438 - A program for community development in Stirling County

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 9
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a research proposal for community development for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #329 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — sixth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 1
Item
June 30, 1956

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

Stirling report #54 - Stirling County Study field manual

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 15
File
1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research manual for field work for the Stirling County Study. The manual indicates that researchers could keep one copy of their field notes and reports for their personal or university's files and that all others remained the property of Cornell University.