Reports, publications, studies, and documentation

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

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."

A therapeutic and economic assessment of Betaseron in multiple sclerosis

MS-2-802, Box 25, Folder 14
File
1996

Part of Murray G. Brown fonds

File includes a study commissioned by CCOHTA written by Murray Brown, T. Jock Murray, John D. Fisk, Ingrida S. Sketris, Carolyn E. Schwartz and John C. LeBlanc, as well as a summary checklist and seminar list.

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 study of the feasibility of establishing a regional police force in the county of Cape Breton

MS-2-681, Box 21, Folder 1
Item
1982

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a report prepared by the Nova Scotia Police Commission in July 1982.

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 Spirit for Evermore

MS-3-4, Box 23, Folder 17
File
2009

Part of Theatre Arts Guild fonds

File contains records related to Ian McCutcheon's A Spirit for Evermore, directed by J. Frederick Brown and produced by Michele Moore. The play was performed at the Pond Playhouse from December 3-19, 2009. Records include a producer's report; program; DVD recording; and cards and a letter of appreciation from audience members.

A single court of human rights in Strasbourg: background information / Andrew Drzemczewski

MS-2-615, Box 116, Folder 14
File
1995 - 1995

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

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 report submitted to the Nova Scotia Council of Health / Murray G. Brown, Cameron A. Voelker and Peter C. Gordon

MS-2-802, Box 17, Folder 8
Item
1974

Part of Murray G. Brown fonds

Item is a report submitted to the Nova Scotia Council of Health by Murray G. Brown, Cameron A. Voelker, and Peter C. Gordon from the Department of Preventive Medicine, Dalhousie University. This report discusses the revised funding strategy for Health Care Research within the Department of Preventive Medicine.

A report on NSAC [Nova Scotia Agricultural College] first year students / D.E. Arnfast and S.G. Russell. Jan. 31, 1992

UA-43, Box 1, Folder 15
File
Jan. 31, 1992

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

"A Realistic Approach to a Nova Scotia Problem" a draft report by the Dominion Brewers Association, Maritime Division.

MS-4-135.2015-046, Box 184, Folder 10
File
[195-?]

Part of Oland and Son fonds

A proposal to encourage the development of adolescent health care in the Province of Nova Scotia: Phase 2, 1973

MS-13-30, SF Box 65, Folder 12, Item 9
Item
1973

Part of Alexander John Murchison fonds

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.

A proposal for restructuring the Sydney Police Department / Nova Scotia Police Commission

MS-2-681, Box 10, Folder 8
Item
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a report published April 1979.

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).

A preschool nursery for the disadvantaged : an attempt to measure and promote cognitive growth / William L. King and Barbara Clark

MS-2-819, SF Box 107, Folder 22
Item
[ca. 1960s]

Part of Barbara Smith Clark fonds

A Night in the Theatre

MS-3-4, Box 23, Folder 8
File
2008

Part of Theatre Arts Guild fonds

File contains records related to A Night in the Theatre, written by Lawrence Casler and directed by Nick Jupp. The play was performed at the Pond Playhouse from February 21-March 8, 2008. Records include a producer's report; program; small poster; newspaper reviews; DVD video recording; and CD-R containing photographs of the cast and crew.

A new library wing for Dalhousie Law School : request for funds to the Alberta Law Foundation

MS-2-615, Box 99, Folder 11
File
1986 - 1986

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

A national list of provincial costs for health care : Canada 1977/8

MS-2-802, Box 25, Folder 3
Item
2000

Part of Murray G. Brown fonds

Item is a report produced by a working group that included Murray Brown.

A Most Prudent Ark

Item
1977

Part of Ecology Action Centre fonds

Item consists of a copy of "A Most Prudent Ark", created by Fisheries and Environment Canada in 1977.

A member's view as to the activity of the CoR / Professor Penti Malaska

MS-2-744, Box 31, Folder 6, Item 4
Item
10 December 1976

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

Item is identified as "annex 5."

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 formal request for assistance to Dalhousie Medical School

UA-12, Box 144, Folder 3, Item 32
Item
[ca. 1965]

Part of Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine fonds

Item is a typed report with handwritten amendments outlining the needs of the Dalhousie Medical School written as part of a formal request for funding from an unidentified foundation.

A documentary history : the Dalhousie discriminatory harassment policy debate

MS-2-186, Box 12, Folder 3
File
1991-1994

Part of Susan Sherwin fonds

A Discussion Paper on the Report on the Royal Commission on Post-Secondary Education

MS-1-Ref, Box 14, Folder 18, Item 2
Item
23 April 1986

Part of Dalhousie University Reference Collection

Item consists of a paper drafted by Dalhousie University responding to the findings of the Royal Commission on Post Secondary Education, drafted in April 1986

A cadastral report on the Nova Scotia Agricultural College / prepared by the Provincial Crown Lands Record Centre for the Department of Government Services

UA-43, Box 7, Folder 10
Item
1983

Part of Nova Scotia Agricultural College fonds

Item is a report that includes background on crown lands, land divisions, purchase records, information on the Nova Scotia Training School, and copies of deeds and maps of various farms pertaining to the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

A book about menopause

MS-2-186, Box 21, Folder 9
File
May 1988

Part of Susan Sherwin fonds

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.

2001 and 2002 final report of the Center for Local and Regional Development, Klaksvik

MS-2-681, Box 24, Folder 11
File
2000-2002

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

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.

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.

#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.

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