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.
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.
Item consists of a facsimile of a letter sent by Dr. A.P. Reid to an unknown issue of the Maritime Medical News, addressing the Provincial Board of Health's response to the smallpox epidemic.
Item consists of a facsimile of a "clinical report" submitted to the June 1898 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. X, No. 6) by Dr. A.P. Reid, titled "Report of a Case of Labour Complicated by a Polypus".
Item consists of a facsimile of a chapter on hygiene -- "Surveying the Territory" written by Dr. A.P. Reid, which appeared in the "original communications" section of the July 1891 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. III, No. 7)
Item consists of a facsimile of a short report submitted to the Canada Medical Journal (Volume 8, 1871) by Dr. A.P. Reid, titled "Femoral Aneurism [sic] successfully treated by Digital Compression".
Item consists of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science (Vol. IV, Part II), read before the Institute on January 10th, 1876, titled "Natural History and the Fisheries".
Item consists of a facsimile of an address by Dr. A.P. Reid, submitted to the September 1910 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XXII, No. 9), and read at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, held in Yarmouth on July 6th, 1910, titled "Treatment of Pneumonia Sixty Years Ago".
Item consists of facsimile of correspondence submitted by A.P. Reid to the June 1904 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XVI, No. 6), on the topic of Nova Scotia's medical board matriculation examination.
Item consists of a facsimile of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the November 1900 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XII, No. 11; the "Original Communications" section), titled "Recent Legislation in Reference to the Public Health and Sanatoria". The article was also read before a meeting of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, held in Amherst on July 6th, 1900.
Item consists of an article from the David Livingstone Missionary Foundation about leprosy missions in Korea, forwarded with a note by Jess Pedigo to Florence Murray, in the early 1970s.
Item consists of statistics and observations gathered by Florence Murray related to leprosy treatment at The Mission to Lepers locations in Korea, ranging from December 1963 to May 1964. Includes information related to the Taegu, Kyungsan, Uisung Bongyang, Uisung Kaum, Kuni Uiheung, Yongchun, Chungdo P.H.D., Chungdo Tongkok, Chungdo Esau, Sunsan, Sunsan Jangchun, and Hyunpoong clinics.
Item consists of two handwritten journals entries (one on loose paper, laid in at the front of the other) by Florence Murray, documenting her first two trips to the island of Cheju (Jeju), South Korea. The first, likely in 1958, was undertaken with Ed Baker, while the second took place in autumn 1960.
Item consists of correspondence (likely from 1974) between Florence Jessie Murray and the Taegu Salvation Army Day Nursery, around charitable contributes to support a child named Kim Hee Soo. Includes typed correspondence in English and handwritten correspondence in Korean.
Item consists of a 1957 printing of the 1954 pamphlet "Camp Hill Hospital : Its History and Development", written by K.A. Mackenzie, T.E. Kirk, and R.E. Lemoine.
Item consists of the fourth draft of an Atlantic Child Guidance Centre position paper, dated August 31, 1972, prepared by the Atlantic Child Guidance Centre Policy Committtee (Dr. Alexander Murchison, Dr. G. Gordon, Norris Turner, Paul Norton, Dr. S. Bijoor, and Everett Harris). The item is addressed to "all Atlantic Child Guidance Centre staff for comment" before final submission, and has the goal of ensuring that "adolescents [...] not be forgotten either in terms of bureaucratic strucutre or in terms of submergence in adult designed and orientated programs," and that they "require advocates" to ensure that any public health legislation does not overlook the needs of those who are "underage [... in a] largely adult orientated society."
Item consists of an early draft of a "Group home development proposal" compiled by the Alexander Murchison (and others) for the Group Home Advisory Committee, Children's Aid Society of Halifax, dated March 5, 1973. The committee consisted of Dr. Murchison (chairman), Ron Smith, Pat Corkery, T. Daley, Mrs. Cleveland, and Father O'Neil. The purpose of the document is "to recommend proposals relative to the development of group homes by the Children's Aid Society of Halifax". Item also contains handwritten inked marginal notes and corrections.
Item consists of the final draft of a brief compiled by Dr. Alexander Murchison and others on an ad hoc committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Sylvia Keet, prepared for Premier Gerald Regan and his ministers, in April 1971. The subject is "the need for [the] establishment of residential treatment centres for disturbed adolescents in Nova Scotia." The committee received support from Mr. Andrew Crook (Canadian Mental Health) and Mr. Tim Daley (Children's Aid Society and Department of Public Welfare." The data was initially collected by Mrs. Elaine Fraser in April 1970 when she was a student at the Maritime School of Social Work, and the final analysis was conducted by students of that school under the direction of Mr. Frank Winters.
Item is a draft brief compiled by Alexander Murchison and others in 1973 or 1974, regarding the opening of a Child Guidance Centre. Item reviews reports and speeches (Clyde Marshall's 1969 working paper, a 1970 address by the Honourable R.A. Donahoe to the Conference of Mental Health Centre Boards, the Hastings Report, and the Government of Ontario's White Paper), as a means of determining that the functioning of the Centre would be "impaired" if the Centre was to be located in the Abbie Lane Psychiatric Hospital. The item addresses concerns with the proposal arising from the schism between prevention (which the Centre would encourage) versus treatment (which the hospital engages in), as well as the stigma associated with the hospital, affecting negatively potential work with at-risk youth and their families.
Item is a draft funding proposal compiled by Alexander Murchison and others, submitted to the Atlantic Regional Office, Non-Medical Use of Drugs Directorate, Health Protection Branch, Department of National Health & Welfare, in February 1973, encouraging the funding and development of an adolescent health care program in Nova Scotia. The item addresses what was achieved from a similar proposal in 1972, and outline aims "to animate interested health care workers [in the province] to initiate changes within their own community and profession." The item contains a three-page budget appendix.
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).
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.
Item consists of a facsimile of a "clinical report" submitted to the March 1900 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XII, No. 3) by Dr. A.P. Reid, titled "Neoplasm of Eyelid", with information on how to treat such an ailment.
Item consists of a facsimile of an "original communications" article submitted to the February 1872 issue of the Canada Medical Journal (Vol. 8, No. 9) by A.P. Reid, previously read before the Halifax Medical Society on February 6th, 1872, titled "The Uses of Pus in the Animal Economy".
Item consists of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the August 1904 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol, XVI, No. 8; in the Original Communications section), titled "The Public Health Act of Nova Scotia". The article was also read by Reid before a meeting the Maritime Medical Association on July 7th, 1904.
Item consists of a facsimile of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the May 1904 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XVI, No. 5; "Original Communications" section), titled "The Smallpox Epidemic: Persistence of the Contagium of Smallpox".
Item consists of a facsimile of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the November 1906 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XVIII, No. 11), titled "Why Do Disease Germs Vary in Virulence?", which was also read at a meeting of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, held in Lunenburg in early 1906.
Item is a videocassette presented by the Medical Society of Nova Scotia. It was originally broadcast as a television program. The tape was requested by Mr. D. Peacock from the Medical Society of Nova Scotia.
Item consists of Florence Jessie Murray's personal accounts book from 1966 to 1974, including some related to Severance Hospital. The final 40 pages are blank.
Item consists of an offprint of an article collected by Florence Murray that appeared in Clinical Medicine and Surgery (41:10, Oct. 1934) titled "The Management of Leprosy", written by R. M. Wilson M.D.
Item consists of Florence Murray's October 1963 report on behalf of The Mission to Lepers to the Medical Missionary Fellowship. Includes information related to the four clinics in the Taegu district, as well as the 12 others in surrounding districts.
Item consists of Florence Murray's daily calendar planner, spanning October 1st, 1962 to January 1st, 1963, covering her time spent working at the Mission leprosy clinic in Taegu (Daegu), South Korea.
Item consists of a draft brief submitted to the Commission of Special Protection Services compiled by Dr. Alexander Murchison and others for the Children's Aid Society of Halifax, presented on May 29, 1972. The report was compiled for the purpose of stressing the importance of examining the "very fine line [...] between delinquent behavior resulting in direct Court Action under the Juvenile Delinquents Act and the behavior exhibited by a child in need of protection as defined in the Child Welfare Act" and making best practice recommendations, when determining foster home placements resulting from Family Court cases regarding child welfare and juvenile delinquency. Item also contains an appendix of three anonymous case studies from the Shelburne region.
Item is a proposal submitted to the Halifax Children's Foundation by the Children and Youth Action Council dated August 2, 1974. The item outlines CAYAC's mission as a "grassroots response to perceived shortcomings in services and programs for young people in Nova Scotia," discusses the organization's objectives and activities (assessing and contributing to legislation, addressing services it provides, pushing for individual case representation, increasing public awareness, and engaging youth involvement). The proposal outlines a request that the Halifax Children's Foundation provide CAYAC with a "three-year demonstration grant" to employ a full-time coordinator and a secretary to achieve the organization's objectives.
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.
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."
Item consists of a facsimile of a chapter on hygiene written by Dr. A.P. Reid, which appeared in the "original communications" section of the June 1891 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. III, No. 6)
Item consists of a facsimile of a chapter on hygiene -- "Dirt, or Matter Out f Place" -- written by Dr. A.P. Reid, which appeared in the "original communications" section of the October 1891 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. III, No. 10).