tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33412704732940712262024-03-14T02:57:54.493-07:00Student Health ServiceStudents' Health Service. Hampton House exterior collage. Welcome to the Students' Health Service.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comBlogger265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-32587141097069416082015-04-29T03:14:00.001-07:002015-04-29T03:14:18.011-07:00Health Services encourages students to get tested for STIs<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7RwWY1gw2Bg/VUCuUZCmQ6I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/_wq0tWmx2nk/s1600/STDizzle.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7RwWY1gw2Bg/VUCuUZCmQ6I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/_wq0tWmx2nk/s1600/STDizzle.png" height="320" width="298" /></a>Student Health Services encourages students to “Get Yourself Tested”
and participate in sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing.
Illinois State students have the opportunity year-round to get tested
for various types of STIs. <span id="more-51450"></span><br />
It is important to practice safe sex; however, those that engage in
sexual activity must remember to get themselves tested for their safety,
and also to keep others safe as well. Students are welcome to make
appointments with or without providers for STI testing. Your test will
be confidential, and your results will be sent to you by secure message.
Appointments can be made through our secure portal or by calling our
appointment desk.<br />
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
nearly 20 million new sexually transmitted infections occur every year
in the United States, half among young people ages 15–24, and some
people have no symptoms. The importance of recognizing if you have an
STI will help you determine your course of treatment and decrease
long-term health issues that are related to untreated STIs.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-20884115397795268002015-04-29T03:09:00.000-07:002015-04-29T03:09:06.640-07:00Student Health Services summer options<br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SdJsmIL0jkg/VUCtqENXkaI/AAAAAAAAAEA/BYy3z3KlQm0/s1600/OSA%2BLOGO2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SdJsmIL0jkg/VUCtqENXkaI/AAAAAAAAAEA/BYy3z3KlQm0/s1600/OSA%2BLOGO2.jpg" height="160" width="320" /></a>Although the spring semester will be coming to an end in May, the
services that are provided at the Student Health clinic will continue
through the summer months. Students that are sticking around campus for
the summer may still utilize the clinic for all healthcare needs.
Below are the summer hours for the clinic, pharmacy and student health
insurance.<br />
<ul>
<li>Summer Clinic hours: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday</li>
<li>Summer pharmacy hours: 8 a.m.-noon and 1 p.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday</li>
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;">Summer student health insurance hours: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8Lbs-MiIPl0/VUCtqftzUKI/AAAAAAAAAEE/e9AaFK3Uy1o/s1600/url.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8Lbs-MiIPl0/VUCtqftzUKI/AAAAAAAAAEE/e9AaFK3Uy1o/s1600/url.jpg" /></a>The same services are still provided to students during the summer
months which include: primary care, sexual healthcare, nutrition
consultation, psychiatry services, x-ray, lab, immunizations and more.<br />
Students that are registered for the summer will have already been
assessed the health service fee, and for at least six credit hours
assessed the student health insurance fee as part of their student
services fee. Those who are not registered for classes over the summer,
may still utilize student health services by paying a small fee of
$100. Each visit will require an additional $10 door fee; however, most
of the services will be provided to you in that small door fee. Those
services that require additional payment may be submitted to your
student health insurance or primary insurance.<br />
For those students that would like to take part in the summer student
health insurance, and are not registered for 6 or more hours, may
purchase the summer student health insurance for $175. This will cover
your health insurance through the summer months which includes while you
are away on vacation.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-87609666866966140712015-04-24T02:02:00.000-07:002015-04-29T12:54:30.504-07:00A preview of our latest HIV/AIDS accession<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I am coming to the end of the Wellcome Trust funded project to catalogue LHSA’s UNESCO recognised HIV/AIDS collections, I thought I would provide a peek at one of our latest HIV/AIDS accession. In the last few days of the project, I have been pulling everything together and managed to spend some time on the Waverley Care accession (Acc14/028). This collection was donated to LHSA last year after connections were made between the charity, my predecessor Karyn and Project Conservator Emily. It’s great when working connections can be established between archives and potential donors because we can provide help and advice, with what materials are suitable for long-term preservation, storage and access, whilst enriching our own collections and research resources. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AJn0BBliOD4/VToE1osn9eI/AAAAAAAABg4/a_gedj67u6U/s1600/WC%2BBooklet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AJn0BBliOD4/VToE1osn9eI/AAAAAAAABg4/a_gedj67u6U/s1600/WC%2BBooklet.jpg" height="320" width="233" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We have already been able to share with you some of the unique and important items from our HIV/AIDS collections, particularly from the vibrant Take Care Campaign. But through sharing some of the items from our other HIV/AIDS collections, we can reflect on the work of many charities, support networks and campaigns that were set up in Edinburgh (and beyond), during the outbreak. They would often work together to take on the epidemic and provided education and support for sufferers, as well as the wider general public. Services provided by charities, such as Waverley Care, provided (and are still providing) excellent support to people living with HIV and Hepatitis C and also work hard to raise awareness, in order to try and prevent new infections.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From the collection we can gain an insight into the foundations of Waverley Care, established in 1989. It was during this period that Edinburgh was labelled the ‘AIDS capital of Europe’, with the highest infection rate throughout the whole of the UK. The region was at the forefront of the battle against the spread of the virus so services like Waverley Care were set up in response</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. The charity went on to develop the UK’s first purpose build hospice for people living with HIV, Milestone House. This transformed into an intensive residential support unit and a community support service for people living with HIV or Hepatitis C. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The collection also has papers relating to another one of its earlier projects, Solas. This was a community-based support and information centre that like many other Edinburgh based campaigns, aimed to reduce public fears about HIV/AIDS. Instead of prevailing an atmosphere of doom and gloom, Solas wanted to be seen as a source of positivity, to help inspire and strengthen a support and education network. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HDJb3RxI_xc/VToEoVkSogI/AAAAAAAABgw/0OYacYa3Sso/s1600/Solas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HDJb3RxI_xc/VToEoVkSogI/AAAAAAAABgw/0OYacYa3Sso/s1600/Solas.jpg" height="320" width="224" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This positive approach can also be seen in the promotional activity of Waverley Care. Here are a selection of their postcards that were produced to promote their messages of strength, support, education and understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gXGfEdEAdxg/VToD__ugTiI/AAAAAAAABgQ/bLxX2sJbAQo/s1600/WC%2BPostcard%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gXGfEdEAdxg/VToD__ugTiI/AAAAAAAABgQ/bLxX2sJbAQo/s1600/WC%2BPostcard%2B2.jpg" height="225" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BUwajtZwTsg/VToECzofOdI/AAAAAAAABgY/ew807h6lkMo/s1600/WC%2BPostcard%2B3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BUwajtZwTsg/VToECzofOdI/AAAAAAAABgY/ew807h6lkMo/s1600/WC%2BPostcard%2B3.jpg" height="223" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 184.5pt right 451.3pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U5DJjqerA7U/VToEEmhLc1I/AAAAAAAABgg/ihhPt_gTEBk/s1600/WC%2BPostcard%2B1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U5DJjqerA7U/VToEEmhLc1I/AAAAAAAABgg/ihhPt_gTEBk/s1600/WC%2BPostcard%2B1.jpg" height="227" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Finally, the charity also takes part in World AIDS Day which still provides an opportunity for the world to unite in the fight against HIV, and commemorate those who have died from the disease. Below is a tartan ‘Red Ribbon’ which became Waverley Care’s symbolic image and highlights the unified stance against HIV/AIDS.</span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9L1lrU5Qks8/VToEcgbv3BI/AAAAAAAABgo/pHcEP2UdyH4/s1600/WC%2BRibbon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9L1lrU5Qks8/VToEcgbv3BI/AAAAAAAABgo/pHcEP2UdyH4/s1600/WC%2BRibbon.jpg" height="246" width="320" /></a></span></div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information on Waverley Care and the current work of the charity, please visit <a href="http://www.waverleycare.org/">http://www.waverleycare.org/</a></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-43686995268127432362015-04-10T01:17:00.000-07:002015-04-29T12:54:30.571-07:00Caution: Patients at work!<div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This week’s blog focusses on the slightly unusual practice of patients doing work in hospital premises, sometimes to help with the running or funding of the establishment. In the majority of cases these were patients who had either mental illness or chronic physical illness, but still who had a good enough measure of health and strength to do work with adequate support and rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">To prevent the spread of tuberculosis in Edinburgh and allow for the treatment and rehabilitation of sufferers, the ‘Edinburgh Scheme’ was put into action during the early 20<sup>th</sup> century. For the Scheme the majority of patients were treated in the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH), the most serious cases were sent to the City Hospital in Colinton Mains and patients who were recovering were sent to Polton Farm Colony which was linked with the RVH in 1910. <span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>As the patients’ condition improved they became able to do limited amounts of exercise, although they remained infectious, and as part of their rehabilitation were put to work at a variety of tasks on and around the Colony grounds. Photographic evidence shows that the patients were involved in such activities as growing seed potatoes and flowers, tending to pigs, woodcutting, gardening and road building. The image shows patients at work around the main building and was published in the<span style="color: red;"> </span>Report on the Evolution and Development of Public Health Administration in the City of Edinburgh 1865-1919 (LHB16/2/1). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CP_uB1rGO00/VSeF35yOh4I/AAAAAAAABfI/dONTZNgKdxs/s1600/Farm%2BColony%2C%2BPolton%2B(LHB16_2_1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CP_uB1rGO00/VSeF35yOh4I/AAAAAAAABfI/dONTZNgKdxs/s1600/Farm%2BColony%2C%2BPolton%2B(LHB16_2_1).jpg" height="255" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Another establishment where patients were regularly encouraged to do gainful employment was the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Being directed to do practical tasks has often been used as 'occupational therapy', even though the term may not have been used in earlier eras. There are examples of patients mentioned in the casebooks in the 19<sup>th</sup>century who were formerly tailors by trade and continued to make clothing during their stay in hospital. LHSA also holds a number of photographs from the 1960s and 1970s showing patients at work. Types of duties recorded include poultry farming, woodwork, pottery making and production line work on children’s toys. It is not always clear, however which tasks were used to earn income and which were purely therapeutic. The image shows a patient adding finishing touches to a wooden rocking horse during the 1960s.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XiXs2S9o4fk/VSeF3odz54I/AAAAAAAABfM/FiuJl625IKM/s1600/P_PL7_P_043%2BREH%2Bpatient%2Band%2Brocking%2Bhorse.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XiXs2S9o4fk/VSeF3odz54I/AAAAAAAABfM/FiuJl625IKM/s1600/P_PL7_P_043%2BREH%2Bpatient%2Band%2Brocking%2Bhorse.JPG" height="320" width="216" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><em>A patient decorates a rocking horse in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital during the 1960s (P/PL7/P/043)</em><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-57113733395941965332015-04-03T02:05:00.000-07:002015-04-29T12:54:30.583-07:00Volunteers' Views <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">This week, Archivist Louise has been asking some of LHSA’s dedicated Royal Edinburgh Hospital casebook indexing volunteers for their personal view on some of the stories that they have encountered during their time with us:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">LHSA’s Royal Edinburgh Hospital institutional records (LHB7) undoubtedly make up our most requested collection (although it’s not our biggest), and within that the casebooks that we ask our volunteers to index are enduringly popular with academic researchers and genealogists alike. There’s rarely a time when all the casebook volumes are on the store shelves, whether that’s because I’m researching a family history enquiry with them, they’re being used in seminar teaching or archive tours or a postgraduate student is carrying out their research around them. We have 121 case books in all, dating from 1840 to 1932 (after which cases were recorded on loose-leaf sheets housed in individual folders.)</span> </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gYOoGRqoIrI/VR5JyhjhePI/AAAAAAAABdc/SIiB7-7upLQ/s1600/RIMG0095.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gYOoGRqoIrI/VR5JyhjhePI/AAAAAAAABdc/SIiB7-7upLQ/s1600/RIMG0095.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><br /><em>A rare view of a full shelf of Royal Edinburgh Hospital casebooks (LHB7/51)</em><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Laura, our previous Archivist, had the bright idea to start a project for volunteers to index the casebooks in an access database, recording key details such as the name of each patient, length of treatment, diagnosis and biographical details like occupation and age. Not only has the database provided a key finding aid for individuals in genealogical searches, but it also collates fascinating statistical data across the thousands of patients whose details have been recorded so far<strong> </strong>(at the end of this week, we’re approaching 10, 800 entries).<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">So that’s why indexing the casebooks is good for us – but it’s also good for volunteers, giving an introduction into what sort of records that we keep, experience of an archive environment key to entry for vocational qualifications, knowledge of how to handle valuable and unique material and of course all-important skills in deciphering handwriting (essential if you want to work with unpublished documents, which make up the majority of most archival collections.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TEUqKn25lDM/VR5Mi5iRa7I/AAAAAAAABeI/dvm-AsR9Dxs/s1600/LHB7_51_79_p2_redacted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TEUqKn25lDM/VR5Mi5iRa7I/AAAAAAAABeI/dvm-AsR9Dxs/s1600/LHB7_51_79_p2_redacted.jpg" height="320" width="190" /></a></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H_eGtTnF6Oo/VR5Mf7ecJUI/AAAAAAAABeA/9xK0zAJIDeY/s1600/LHB7_51_79_p1_redacted.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H_eGtTnF6Oo/VR5Mf7ecJUI/AAAAAAAABeA/9xK0zAJIDeY/s1600/LHB7_51_79_p1_redacted.jpg" height="320" width="185" /></a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sqMYzwCUfPc/VR5L7EiIDnI/AAAAAAAABdw/MdjRMnslW2U/s1600/LHB7_51_79_p1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a> </div><em>A view inside one of the casebooks from 1901 - 1902 (LHB7/51/79)</em><br /><em></em><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">At the moment, we have four volunteers working on indexing the cases – Fiona Mossman, Aidan Hurst, Arianna Shorey and Catriona Colquhoun – and I’ve asked them to tell me a little more about their impressions of the casebooks and volunteering with us. Because Catriona only started her indexing this week, I didn’t think it was fair to ask her to give her impressions after day one!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">For Aidan, volunteering with us has been the first step to exploring a career in archives:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“I started volunteering at LHSA in the middle of November 2014. My first task was to help transcribe a register of the outdoor blind as part of a Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) Scotland project supported by LHSA. I have greatly enjoyed volunteering at LHSA so far – the staff here have been very friendly and welcoming and I feel like I have learned a lot.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In fact, we learnt today that Aidan has been successful in obtaining a conditional place on the MSc in Information Management and Preservation at the University of Glasgow this Autumn to take his experience in archives to the next level. Congratulations, Aidan!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><br /><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A0-D9nV3LR0/VR5NpL0YySI/AAAAAAAABeU/nfeaqqGDVfg/s1600/Aidan%2B001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A0-D9nV3LR0/VR5NpL0YySI/AAAAAAAABeU/nfeaqqGDVfg/s1600/Aidan%2B001.JPG" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><o:p><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Aidan busy in the office</em></span><br /> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Quite a few of our volunteers in the Centre for Research Collections are University of Edinburgh students, wanting to find out about different careers. Both Arianna Shorey and Fiona Mossman started to volunteer more regularly with us after being involved in one of our Volunteer Taster Days, where you can come in to LHSA for a day (whether you’re a University of Edinburgh student or not) and find out a bit more about the archives that we hold and how we work with them. There’s no obligation at all to come back to us, but we find that quite a few people do (it must be the free LHSA pencils!). Arianna is a studying Chinese Studies as a postgraduate, and has enjoyed both the palaeographic challenges and societal insights that these casebooks hold:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“I enjoy the process of indexing the old records and trying to decipher the beautiful cursive script. It is challenging, very similar in a way to a puzzle, but also very rewarding. One of the most interesting things to record is the occupations of the patients. Occasionally, I will come across an unusual occupation, like bookbinder, one that seems to transcend time, like poet, or one that is just so characteristic of the time period the record is coming from, like a cab driver or mattress maker. Little indications of major historical events recorded in the casebooks often catch my attention too, like the acknowledgement of the passing of a new year by decorating a page of the casebook, particularly 1900, or a gradual change in diagnoses, occupation and even names. By far the best thing about the project is the unpredictable nature of the information. Although the type of information you are looking for stays the same, each record, and often, author are different and completely unpredictable.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fLwhPAhZc8k/VR5UV0Q_0CI/AAAAAAAABe4/xozQXki44zo/s1600/End%2Bof%2B1899%2B001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fLwhPAhZc8k/VR5UV0Q_0CI/AAAAAAAABe4/xozQXki44zo/s1600/End%2Bof%2B1899%2B001.JPG" height="320" width="287" /></a></div><br /><em>Graphic art marking the end of 1899 in one of the casebooks (LHB7/51/75)</em><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Arianna has been brave enough to tackle a more challenging aspect of the indexing as well – looking through earlier volumes that are not structured by a form, but with key data hidden inside paragraphs of physicians’ often idiosyncratic handwriting.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Fiona joined us last September, partly to compliment her undergraduate studies, but also as a step towards gaining her </span><a href="http://www.employability.ed.ac.uk/Student/EdinburghAward/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Edinburgh Award,</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> a programme that recognises students’ extra-curricular experience (such as volunteering) by encouraging them to measure the benefits that they have gained:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Indexing some of the casebooks has given me a taste of what happens in archives while fitting in with the rest of my studies. Perhaps the biggest challenge is the handwriting. There was also much to learn from the point of view of the history of the project, which is a record of mental health patients in Edinburgh from the 1840s until the 1930s. Familiar Edinburgh landmarks and the interesting titbits of information about patients – the delusions of being royalty, or of electrical equipment that could read thoughts – situated the patients more firmly for me. Some case-notes are very sad, as in the case of people suffering from the deaths of loved ones, from overwork or accidents, from rape or abuse to congenital diseases. Working on this project can give an insight into the lives of doctors and patients in Edinburgh over a hundred years ago, and has also helped to create a resource for those who want to research these casebooks for ancestors or for academic research.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">It’ll soon be Fiona’s last week with us, and she has shown great dedication to the project, having presented to us as part of her Edinburgh Award and even creating a guide to help future volunteers to get over the initial hurdles of indexing, such as deciphering names, handwriting and contractions of words, as well as translating the contemporary conventions of the casebooks like now unfamiliar occupations and psychiatric diagnoses.<o:p></o:p></span><br /> <br /><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v402yk4Dydc/VR5PWlS7OJI/AAAAAAAABek/u5A22QXrlNM/s1600/LHB7_51_79_printers_warehouseman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v402yk4Dydc/VR5PWlS7OJI/AAAAAAAABek/u5A22QXrlNM/s1600/LHB7_51_79_printers_warehouseman.jpg" height="101" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vKYh3ReaXLc/VR5PWo4CeXI/AAAAAAAABeg/yePpSP17kLw/s1600/LHB7_51_79_railway_porter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vKYh3ReaXLc/VR5PWo4CeXI/AAAAAAAABeg/yePpSP17kLw/s1600/LHB7_51_79_railway_porter.jpg" height="121" width="320" /></a></div><br /><em>Examples of some challenging handwriting and contractions used in the casebooks.</em></span></o:p><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">You can learn more about volunteering with LHSA </span><a href="http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/volunteer/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span><br /> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-69731623110168921602015-03-20T04:21:00.000-07:002015-04-29T12:54:30.648-07:00Popstars in the Archive <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Closing into the final month working on the Wellcome Trust funded HIV/AIDS project at LHSA, I have been cataloguing GD22 - The Take Care Campaign. The Take Care Campaign began in the late 1980s in response to cases of HIV and AIDS in the Edinburgh and Lothian being four times the national average, affecting mainly young heterosexual people. The Campaign was intended to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS amongst all members of the community and involved advertising, events, and education, which were often described as ‘ground-breaking’. The Campaign took a very direct, explicate and vibrant approach to get their message across. Straight to the point promotion of safe sex was disseminated which stressed the importance for everyone to ‘Take care of themselves and encourage others to take care’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So what was it about the Campaign’s promotional activities that made it so effective? I turned to the Take Care Campaign Report, 1988 – 1989 (GD22/4/1/2) for more details. The Report is really useful in providing a background to the HIV/AIDS problem in Edinburgh and the need for such a Campaign. It also provides a record of the promotional activities the Campaign used to get their message across. Some of the most innovative ideas included: turning a Lothian bus pink and decorating it in the Take Care message; a banner bearing the slogan, ‘Take Care of the one you love and AIDS concerns us all’ was displayed on the railings at the top of the Mound; and the Campaign promoted the first installation of condom machines in pubs, ‘discos’, and large workplaces. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">However, after I had an all singing and dancing wedding weekend, Deacon Blues ‘Dignity’ being a party favourite, coming back to work on Monday morning was a treat when I came across a signed copy of a Deacon Blue vinyl within the collection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6lZhkGNKoT8/VQv4Ls8ZplI/AAAAAAAABck/MXhRKaNvS8Q/s1600/Decon%2BBlue%2BVinyl%2BGD22_10_8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6lZhkGNKoT8/VQv4Ls8ZplI/AAAAAAAABck/MXhRKaNvS8Q/s1600/Decon%2BBlue%2BVinyl%2BGD22_10_8.jpg" height="320" width="317" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Signed Deacon Blue Vinyl 'Wages Day' (GD22/10/8)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Deacon Blue were an Edinburgh based band, having their main hits in the late 1980s but who also supported the Take Care Campaign. They featured in special concerts and participated in advertising the Take Care message. They were not the only ones though! James with their famous hit ‘Sit-down’ were also advocates of the Campaign, as well as Scottish band Simple Minds. Within the collection there are some great images that illustrate how the Campaign used contemporary pop-culture to connect with the audience in which it wished to target. </span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8Pm-b788zro/VQv4PDuisWI/AAAAAAAABcs/o5VYzRhv4Lg/s1600/James%2BGD22_14_4_6_12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8Pm-b788zro/VQv4PDuisWI/AAAAAAAABcs/o5VYzRhv4Lg/s1600/James%2BGD22_14_4_6_12.jpg" height="320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James postcard advertising the Take Care Campaign (GD22/14/4/6/12)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At Deacon Blue concerts 6700 postcards which pictured the band with the lead singer wearing a pink watch, with the Take Care message, were given to fans as their tickets were checked. According to the Campaign Report, ‘The cleaners were asked to set aside the cards which were left behind. These amounted to 133, indicating a very good initial retention rate’. Similarly at a Simple Minds concert at Meadowbank, Take Care posters were produced for the event and Take Care messages were flashed on electronic scoreboards during the event. <span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pNTeYLUc8pk/VQv4QWCor0I/AAAAAAAABcw/1UGNdV6LtBo/s1600/Deacon%2BBlue%2BPostcard%2BGD22_14_4_6_15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pNTeYLUc8pk/VQv4QWCor0I/AAAAAAAABcw/1UGNdV6LtBo/s1600/Deacon%2BBlue%2BPostcard%2BGD22_14_4_6_15.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deacon Blue postcard advertising the Take Care Campaign, given out at their concert (GD22/14/4/6/15)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These were just some of the innovative ways that the Take Care Campaign effectively got such an important message across during a very threatening time to health in Edinburgh and the Lothians. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-65209007617543208902015-03-13T01:00:00.000-07:002015-04-29T12:54:30.702-07:00Engaging with Education: Creating resources based on the HIV/AIDS collections. <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last week, I began a month long project to make the newly accessible HIV/AIDS collections (conserved and catalogued last year) more available to a larger and more diverse audience. The project is funded by the Wellcome Trust’s ‘Provision for Public Engagement’ scheme, which allows previously Wellcome Trust funded projects to apply for further funding to develop a strategy to encourage the public to use and engage with the material. Our project aims to create educational resources based on the HIV/AIDS collections and linked to the Curriculum for Excellence, focusing on the year groups S2 to S3. These resources will be uploaded on to a dedicated website and are for use by teachers and educational professionals. </span></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kTPtbFwWMUo/VQG34V3UNJI/AAAAAAAABcQ/9-pOuJOIBMU/s1600/Collage2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kTPtbFwWMUo/VQG34V3UNJI/AAAAAAAABcQ/9-pOuJOIBMU/s1600/Collage2.jpg" height="132" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Collage of postcards from the 'Take Care' Campaign</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is a short term project which hopes to achieve a lot. As such, there is a large group of people who are helping out. Firstly, the website is being created in house by the Interactive Content Team. They have come up with some great designs and ideas for the website based on the collection items. Next we have Iain Philips, who is on a short term secondment from John Lewis, thanks to a John Lewis Golden Jubilee Award. He will be working 2 days a week for the next 20 weeks at LHSA, and for his first month he will be making educational resources and helping with the promotion of the website. Clair Millar, Project Cataloguing Archivist, is also helping out on the project. She will be providing some historical context for the website, describing the problem of HIV/AIDS in Edinburgh and the Lothians in more detail, to give a background to the collections. Conservation volunteer, Colette Bush, will also be helping out on this project. Colette is starting a Master’s degree in Museum Studies and will also be making educational resources for the website. Finally, the LHSA team will help with checking the website for any errors or navigational problems, making this project a truly collaborative effort!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rfI-yXeltzo/VQG34dyFF6I/AAAAAAAABcI/siX4V24SoG4/s1600/ribbob%2Bcollage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rfI-yXeltzo/VQG34dyFF6I/AAAAAAAABcI/siX4V24SoG4/s1600/ribbob%2Bcollage.jpg" height="132" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Collage of Postcards made for World AIDS day</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><o:p></o:p></span> </div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I trained as a paper conservator, this project is a little bit out of my comfort zone. So I have been talking to teachers, youth workers and educational professionals to find out more about the curriculum and how to make educational resources. I first dipped my toes in to world of Education by attending a one-day workshop provided by the Scottish Council on Archives entitled “Understanding the Curriculum”. This gave a basic overview of the education system in Scotland (invaluable for someone like me who is from south of the border!) and gives an introduction on how to make educational resources based on archive material. I’ve also spoken with representatives from Education Scotland who gave useful information on teacher’s needs and timetables as well as giving insightful feedback on our resource drafts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edinburgh University’s Widening Participation team have also been very positive about the project and will help us advertise the website when it is completed to the local schools that they work with. We’ve also had a great response from Crew 2000, a charity that provides information, advice and support for young people on sexual health and drug use. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Overall, the project has got off to a great start. The HIV/AIDS collections have huge education potential and there is loads of material to choose from to make engaging and informative resources. The website will be launched in May, so keep your eyes peeled for project updates in the coming months!</span></div><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-3947723798499575222015-03-06T05:39:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:30.712-07:00The early days of dietetics in Edinburgh...<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It was observed in early hospitals that patients tended to get better more quickly if they were well nourished. It was also noted that patients with certain illnesses sometimes needed more of particular foods while others could not tolerate some foods at all. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">According to the British Dietetic Association website, the earliest dietary observations were at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1687 and the first recorded therapeutic diet was at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford in 1837. It was not until the late 19<sup>th</sup> century and early 20<sup>th</sup> century, however that the science of dietetics was developed, first in the United States of America. In 1920 a report was commissioned by the Board of Managers of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) to investigate dietetic arrangements and the Dietetic Department opened in 1924, the first hospital known to have developed such a department. Sister Ruth Pybus was appointed dietician and obtained a Rockefeller Scholarship to study dietetics in American hospitals. In 1928, the Rockefeller Foundation also generously gave the hospital a grant towards the building of facilities for the Dietetic Department which included a metabolic unit, two wards, a diet kitchen and laboratory. The image shows the diet kitchen in 1950.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4yzT4e20FF4/VPmsgTdNrdI/AAAAAAAABbo/tozJRIGiQj8/s1600/Dietetic%2BKitchen%2BP_PL1_S_395.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4yzT4e20FF4/VPmsgTdNrdI/AAAAAAAABbo/tozJRIGiQj8/s1600/Dietetic%2BKitchen%2BP_PL1_S_395.jpg" height="243" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Staff working in the dietetic kitchen, ward 21 RIE, 1950 (P/PL1/S/395)</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Much ingenuity was exercised in the creation of recipes in the early days. The ‘liver diet’ and the ‘spleen diet’ were created for patients with pernicious anaemia and great effort was made in producing bran wafers for diabetics, made from bran with the starch removed put into a jelly of agar-agar or carragheen moss. The consistency was described as being like fairy toast with the appearance of thin firelighters, but they were much in demand by patients! LHSA holds a set of tasty recipes from the Dietetic Department from the 1950s, which includes this one for chicken in jelly (LHB1/89/4/1).<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eJxJcxk0zJA/VPmtb8K-mcI/AAAAAAAABbw/7jXNPCusxyU/s1600/LHB1_89_4_1%2BChicken%2Bin%2BJelly.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eJxJcxk0zJA/VPmtb8K-mcI/AAAAAAAABbw/7jXNPCusxyU/s1600/LHB1_89_4_1%2BChicken%2Bin%2BJelly.jpg" height="320" width="197" /></a></div><br /><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recipe for chicken in jelly, 1950s (LHB1/89/4/1)</span></em> <br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">References: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Growth and Development of the Dietetic Department: 4 The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh by Anna Buchan,</i> International Journal of Food and Nutrition<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>vol. VII, no. 2, Summer 1954.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">British Dietetic Association website: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/18WpDeb"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">http://bit.ly/18WpDeb</span></span></a><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-3384318749098388352015-02-27T02:38:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:30.767-07:00Just mess-ing around...<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In this week's blog, Archivist Louise has been looking at a hidden side of hospital life...</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Perhaps unsurprisingly, the records that we hold for hospital staff are considerably less detailed than most of those that we have for patients. We can often say that someone was a nurse, doctor or a member of non-medical staff at a particular time, but can provide few other details than that. Although sometimes photographs, monographs and nurse training records can fill some gaps, it can be hard to access individual personalities behind professional roles or to reconstruct the daily lives of hospital staff from archives alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">However, for some periods and for some institutions, we have a little more to build up a picture of life off the wards. One example that I’ve become intrigued by is the section of our Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) collection from the Residents’ Mess. After graduating from their medical course, physicians had to complete a period of practice experience in a hospital, in whose grounds they lived as a House Officer for six months (before 1950 – although this then was amended to a full year of service). We have quite a range of records from those serving this medical apprenticeship, from the photographs of residents that appear fairly often on our website and social media, including our earliest featuring Joseph Lister…..<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cV3Cu1ar2zA/VPA62hN8kCI/AAAAAAAABZM/mGJuAdHUMik/s1600/1854.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cV3Cu1ar2zA/VPA62hN8kCI/AAAAAAAABZM/mGJuAdHUMik/s1600/1854.jpg" height="255" width="320" /></a></div><em></em><br /><em>Our earliest photograph of RIE residents, 1854 (P/PLI/S/294)</em><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">… to lists of residents (charting the early careers of clinicians who would go on to change the course of Scottish medical history), rules, correspondence, financial records and ephemera.</span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nVKcnSrSkG4/VPA7cs3pa8I/AAAAAAAABZY/_xRqUvXeNP8/s1600/LHB1_114_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nVKcnSrSkG4/VPA7cs3pa8I/AAAAAAAABZY/_xRqUvXeNP8/s1600/LHB1_114_1.jpg" height="320" width="205" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /><em>Page from Rules Subscribed by Resident Physicians and Surgeons (1895-1928) from October 1921. Can you spot and famous names? (LHB1/114/1)</em><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">One set of records that stood out to me was the log books of the Residents’ Mess – what would a canteen log book be like, I wondered naively? In fact, a ‘Mess’ referred to each new intake of residents. Looking at the Residents’ Mess log book from 1914 to 1915, it is a curious document, recording the lighter side of clinical life with an entry for each day. There are in-jokes lost in the interceding years, nicknames, some decidedly savoury language and an almost daily recording of fines handed down to members of the Mess. Here is a more than typical (and relatively tame!) page:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_PV2jZrFUaA/VPA7dyyUU5I/AAAAAAAABZo/kI3Q9txLG9I/s1600/LHB1_115_4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_PV2jZrFUaA/VPA7dyyUU5I/AAAAAAAABZo/kI3Q9txLG9I/s1600/LHB1_115_4.jpg" height="320" width="179" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><o:p></o:p> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><o:p><em>Page from Log Book of Residents' Mess 1914 - 1915 (LHB1/115/4)</em></o:p></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">This loose page from an unknown volume mentions (amongst the obligatory sampling of wine for the mess dinner) a fancy dress parade, which seems to have dropped off, but was planned to be revived:<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9i5Egq2AAbQ/VPA7eTRqrWI/AAAAAAAABZ4/_DAT-pZ0Q4U/s1600/LHB1_115_5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9i5Egq2AAbQ/VPA7eTRqrWI/AAAAAAAABZ4/_DAT-pZ0Q4U/s1600/LHB1_115_5.jpg" height="252" width="320" /></a></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> </em></span></o:p></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Page from undated Log Book of Residents' Mess, undated (LHB1/115/5)</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Mess Log from 1914 has more detail about the parade, which took place every Christmas Eve at 11pm from the Surgical Outpatients’ Department (SOPD), and lists in delightful detail the individual outfits of each member taking part, including the prize-winner, Dr W A Alexander, who cut a dash as a ‘ballet girl’. Dr Alexander was far from alone, since ‘there was a strong majority of ladies of all ages, nationalities and description from Little Red Riding Hood up to the fully developed butterflys [sic.]’.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-crnvQTlJMWY/VPA9tUbbmdI/AAAAAAAABa4/BtyEpJI5woI/s1600/LHB1_115_4_fancy_cropped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-crnvQTlJMWY/VPA9tUbbmdI/AAAAAAAABa4/BtyEpJI5woI/s1600/LHB1_115_4_fancy_cropped.jpg" height="320" width="234" /></a></div><em></em><br /><em>Page mentioning the residents' outfits from the Log Book of the Residents' Mess 1914-1915 (LHB1/115/4)</em><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you’d like to put some faces to some of the names mentioned, here is the class of Winter 1914, with the fancy dress prize-winner in the centre front row:</span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_U8GirQdTL0/VPA7iGun6TI/AAAAAAAABas/SMim08VtdNM/s1600/Winter%2B1914-1915.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_U8GirQdTL0/VPA7iGun6TI/AAAAAAAABas/SMim08VtdNM/s1600/Winter%2B1914-1915.jpg" height="257" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /><em>RIE Residents, Winter 1914 (LHSA photographic collection)</em><br /><em></em><br />And to prove that the parade was not an isolated occurrence, here's an early twentieth century image of residents in their finery:<br /><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ox7cFlh5KAw/VPA7fVggnSI/AAAAAAAABag/laIFT4g_xrQ/s1600/P_PL1_R_008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ox7cFlh5KAw/VPA7fVggnSI/AAAAAAAABag/laIFT4g_xrQ/s1600/P_PL1_R_008.jpg" height="228" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em></em><br /><em>Residents taking a break from their hospital white coats, early twentieth century (P/PL1/R/008)</em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The residents also produced a light-hearted magazine, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Infirmary Independent</i>, of which we have the first (and perhaps only!) edition from 1913. It serialised stories, published satirical poems, and included outlines of out-of-work activities, including theatre and sports. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oiADIK9uPD0/VPA7dPb8YII/AAAAAAAABZc/J_ykVTDEpwg/s1600/LHB1_115_12_p1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oiADIK9uPD0/VPA7dPb8YII/AAAAAAAABZc/J_ykVTDEpwg/s1600/LHB1_115_12_p1.jpg" height="320" width="187" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H1J_PUAETXs/VPA7ckpyIrI/AAAAAAAABZU/WNJAg11YjlM/s1600/LHB1_115_12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H1J_PUAETXs/VPA7ckpyIrI/AAAAAAAABZU/WNJAg11YjlM/s1600/LHB1_115_12.jpg" height="320" width="204" /></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em></em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em></em></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Cover and first page of The Infirmary Independent, 1913 (LHB1/115/12)</em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">My favourite part of the magazine is ‘The Probationer’s Guide to Knowledge’ (a probationer is defined in the piece as a trainee – or in this case ‘trying’ – nurse) – but at least these young doctors seem to know their place before the ultimate earthly hospital authority, since they acknowledge that 'above [the probationers] are the assistant nurses, above them the sisters, above them the assistant-superintendents , above them the lady superintendent, above her, we believe, the Almighty.'</span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">What we have left from the residents' off-duty life is at times funny, sometimes (to our twenty-first century ears) bordering on the (or actually) offensive, but reveals a world lost in time. This world was undoubtedly a privileged one, since residents had the advantage of an elite education and received no salaries from the RIE before the NHS, but would come to rely for their income on private practice.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Fl6sJ_MtYNI/VPA7gP0VIvI/AAAAAAAABac/rn1sjHAMEk0/s1600/alexander_invitation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Fl6sJ_MtYNI/VPA7gP0VIvI/AAAAAAAABac/rn1sjHAMEk0/s1600/alexander_invitation.jpg" height="241" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><em>Residents' event invitation sent to Dr W A Alexander, the fancy dress competition winner! (LHB1/115/7)</em></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Although this world of Latin invitations and medical graduates dressing as ballet girls may justifiably invoke ire at the social inequalities of the early twentieth century, it must be read in the context of its time - perhaps as an outlet for people at the start of their careers with heavy expectations on their shoulders. Similarly, we can see these items with some relief that we have moved towards an era in which there is a narrower social gap between doctors and many of their patients.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">And if you ever wondered what the Mess actually had for their dinner every night, we can tell you that as well:</span><br /><o:p><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><br /></span></o:p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YAne7VSUj_c/VPA7fAgnO_I/AAAAAAAABaI/lfOxGqtSmQY/s1600/LHB1_115_8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YAne7VSUj_c/VPA7fAgnO_I/AAAAAAAABaI/lfOxGqtSmQY/s1600/LHB1_115_8.jpg" height="246" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Pages from book of residents' daily menus, 1918 - 1921 (LHB1/115/8)</em></span> </div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you've been equally fascinated by the world of the RIE residency, you can read more in coming weeks, as we outline a theatrical visit to the fledgling doctors in our </span><a href="http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/exhibits/index.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Every Picture Tells a Story</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> feature. And this time, it's not the residents dressing up....</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-17313636798393983312015-02-20T08:44:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:30.781-07:00Making friends and influencing people (with the Scottish Council on Archives)A<span style="font-family: Calibri;">KA Ruth provides an update on a recent Scottish Council on Archives development and its impact on LHSA...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last week I went to a Scottish Council on Archives (SCA) event in which they introduced their brand new Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation status (SCIO). SCA provides <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">leadership for the archives and records management sector in Scotland in a number of important ways (more information <a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/about" target="_blank">here</a>) and we’ve worked closely with SCA for a few years now. We’ve certainly taken advantage of all the fabulous advocacy work SCA does for our sector - our most notable success was submitting a recipe for invalid fruit tart to their awareness raising campaign, ‘Edible Archive’, which made its way onto the 2012 Great British Bake Off!</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">More recently we were awarded Accredited Archive Status, a process which was supported by SCA, and we’ve been pumping their Education Development Officer for information to help with our new Wellcome Trust-funded public engagement project where we’ll be producing online resources for teachers. We’re also looking forward to Paul, Edinburgh University’s Skills for the Future Trainee, spending some time with us over the summer. He’s been based in the Centre for Research Collections since October last year as part of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant managed by SCA that aims to offer experience in the archive sector to six people each year for three years. </span></span><br /><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span><br /><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But what does SCA’s new SCIO status mean for us? Well, we’ll be hoping to carry on working with a great organisation, but now it will be as a member of it! Becoming a member is free, and if you’d like to join us in joining them, more information is available here: </span><a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/membership" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/membership</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-26086377432943483552015-02-13T02:39:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:30.835-07:00The growth of the Department of Surgical Neurology <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 1960 a new Department of Surgical Neurology was opened at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh (WGH) under Professor Norman Dott. This new department brought together the facilities for the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of surgical neurology patients that Dott had been working towards throughout his career. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0kNBp6PuD4M/VN3QUig_h4I/AAAAAAAABYM/2pX3u9wabDg/s1600/WGH_exterior_view.tif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0kNBp6PuD4M/VN3QUig_h4I/AAAAAAAABYM/2pX3u9wabDg/s1600/WGH_exterior_view.tif" height="317" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em>Image showing the new Department at Surgical Neurology at WGH (LHB11/7/2</em>)</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When he started out in the 1920s there were no dedicated facilities for surgical neurology patients and Dott worked in private practice, treating patients in rooms in a private nursing home and moving his surgical equipment across Edinburgh in a taxi. In 1931, Dott was appointed Associate Neurological Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) and was and given access to four post-operative beds for his patients in Wards 13 and 14 and use of the operating theatre. This was the beginning of the Department of Surgical Neurology at RIE, which was the first of its kind in Scotland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This move was followed in 1936 with the allocation of Ward 20, which was located in the clock tower at RIE, to Dott to set up his own department. However it wasn’t until 1938 that the new department received its first patients, as the Ward had to be extended and made fit for purpose, this included adding an operating theatre (with a special steel elliptical lighting dome imported from Paris and a sound-proof viewing room which featured one-way glass for students to view operations), twenty beds, an ophthalmic room, staff-room and out-patient facilities. Further accommodation was made available to Dott and his team in 1939 at Bangour General Emergency Service Hospital at Broxburn in West Lothian, where he established the Brain Injuries Unit providing treatment to military and civilian cases. The Department of Surgical Neurology, now firmly established as a specialist unit, operated over two sites providing different services at each location throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Although the department was extended in the 1950s, the growing number of patients (in 1959/1960 Ward 20 dealt with 1,100 patients, performed 900 operations and saw 6,000 out-patients – still with only twenty beds) and the demands on the expertise of Dott and his team meant that more space was needed. A major contributing factor to the growth in patient numbers was the increase in head injuries sustained in road accidents due to the rise in car use.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KWWOg07wFBE/VN3Q6jGATAI/AAAAAAAABYU/9Lf15Bklqxs/s1600/P_PL1_B_l_080%2BWard20_Surgery_Roof.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KWWOg07wFBE/VN3Q6jGATAI/AAAAAAAABYU/9Lf15Bklqxs/s1600/P_PL1_B_l_080%2BWard20_Surgery_Roof.jpg" height="280" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em>Roof of operating theatre at Ward 20, RIE (P/PL1/B/l/080)</em></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So, to the Western General were a six- storey block was built, at a cost of £500,000, to accommodate the expanded Department of Surgical Neurology. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The new building housed twin operating theatres; sixty beds; physiotherapy, </span><a href="http://lhsa.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/splish-splash-its-hydrotherapy-pool_12.htmlhttp:/lhsa.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/splish-splash-its-hydrotherapy-pool_12.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">hydrotherapy</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">and </span><a href="http://lhsa.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/occupational-therapy-history-behind.htmlOccupational%20Therapy:%20history%20behind%20the%20photographs"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">occupational therapy</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> rooms; and staff accommodation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The theatres, which were specially designed by Norman Dott and described by fellow surgeons as ‘Utopian’, were an ovid shape designed to limit infection and had domed roofs which featured shadowless lamps. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OAfk1jLUomE/VN3Roj9aUAI/AAAAAAAABYg/3sY3kr6PNvI/s1600/Plan_WGH.tif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OAfk1jLUomE/VN3Roj9aUAI/AAAAAAAABYg/3sY3kr6PNvI/s1600/Plan_WGH.tif" height="270" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em>Plan of operating theatre, WGH (LHB13/11/5)</em></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ward 20 at RIE became a specialist unit for head and spinal injuries and for out-patient services, while the new department at WGH was mainly for elective surgery, with patients transferring between the two sites. The sites were even more equipped to work together when, in 1962 a television link was set up. Norman Dott retired in 1963, but the department that he established continued to grow and lead the way in research and treatment, finally merging in 1986 with the Department of Medical Neurology to form the Department of Clinical Neurosciences.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cFLnnnapb0k/VN3SsopKQEI/AAAAAAAABY0/ew7knJkoJdw/s1600/P_PL1_1_006TV%2Blink.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cFLnnnapb0k/VN3SsopKQEI/AAAAAAAABY0/ew7knJkoJdw/s1600/P_PL1_1_006TV%2Blink.JPG" height="400" width="290" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em>Television link between Department of Surgical Neurology at WGH and Ward 20 at RIE (P/PL1/l/006</em>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <span style="font-family: Calibri;">More images relating to Norman Dott can now be viewed on the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN) by following this link:</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><a href="http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/results.php?QUICKSEARCH=1&search_term=norman+dott"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/results.php?QUICKSEARCH=1&search_term=norman+dott</span></a><o:p></o:p></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><strong><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">References<o:p></o:p></span></strong></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (1929-1979), Catford, E F<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A History of the Western General Hospital Edinburgh, Eastwood, M and Jenkinson, A<o:p></o:p></span><br /> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">With Sharp Compassion: Norman Dott Freeman Surgeon of Edinburgh, Rush, Christopher and Shaw, John F</span><o:p></o:p><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-27772828885717545592015-02-06T02:34:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:30.846-07:00HIV/AIDS Project: After a short break...it's back <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After I had such a fantastic time as Archive Intern with LHSA towards the end of last year, I was delighted to make a return this time as Project Cataloguing Archivist, working to finish cataloguing the HIV/AIDS collection. From my time as an intern and reading Emily and Karyn’s blog posts about the project I had a fair idea about this great opportunity to work with such a modern collection. To recap, the HIV/AIDS collections at LHSA were inscribed to the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register in 2011 because of their importance in the context, of the study of the history of medicine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The collections are rich in their documentation of a significant period for Edinburgh and Lothian, 1983 -2010, in the fight against HIV/AIDS. This was one of the most serious threats to public health towards the end of the twentieth century, not only in Scotland but throughout the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In order to complete the cataloguing project, to provide maximum access to the HIV/AIDS collections for future research, I have been tasked with the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Completing cataloguing of GD25: Papers of Helen Zealley, Director of Public Health/Chief Administrative Medical Officer (CAMO).<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Completing cataloguing of GD22: “Take Care” Campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cross-referencing photographs and objects from LHB45:</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lothian Health Board AIDS Papers, into the photograph and objects database. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But! One of the first jobs I had was to finish preparing a collection of digitised images and posters, from various HIV/AIDS campaigns, for access via the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network [SCRAN]. Most of this work was already done but I was the lucky one who got to finish attaching metadata to the images and then hand delivering them to the SCRAN office based at <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland</span><span lang="EN"> </span>[RCAHMS]. It was great to get a behind the scenes look at how SCRAN actually delivers such an important educational resource. Working relationships between archives and online platforms, such as SCRAN, are so important to opening up unique and important parts of our history. The HIV/AIDS campaign images are now part of this online service providing access to thousands of images from archives, museums and galleries, representing Scotland’s past for mass leaning. Within a couple of days the images were up on the SCRAN website. Here is a taster of some of the images you can see just by following this link: </span><a href="http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/results.php?id_proj=1104" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/results.php?id_proj=1104</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R_rfggwGz2A/VNSX7tLXn-I/AAAAAAAABXs/_7qr9yGbk9U/s1600/The%2Bone%2Byou%2Blove.TIF" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R_rfggwGz2A/VNSX7tLXn-I/AAAAAAAABXs/_7qr9yGbk9U/s1600/The%2Bone%2Byou%2Blove.TIF" height="277" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘The one you love’ Take Care Campaign – GD22/PD1.4/115<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H1d15sH5zLY/VNSYHuceCEI/AAAAAAAABX0/Br6SNaUroGw/s1600/Lovely%2Blatex.TIF" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H1d15sH5zLY/VNSYHuceCEI/AAAAAAAABX0/Br6SNaUroGw/s1600/Lovely%2Blatex.TIF" height="400" width="277" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘Lovely Latex’ Take Care Campaign – GD22/PD1.4/58<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br /><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br /> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qh0XcJRFNgw/VNSYUtbHb0I/AAAAAAAABX8/UI11WbZ8648/s1600/World%2BAIDS%2BDay%2BEarth.TIF" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qh0XcJRFNgw/VNSYUtbHb0I/AAAAAAAABX8/UI11WbZ8648/s1600/World%2BAIDS%2BDay%2BEarth.TIF" height="282" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘World AIDS Day-Earth’ – GD22/PD1.4/81</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Since then however, I have been cataloguing the Papers of Dr. Helen Zealley, Director of Public Health for NHS Lothian (previously Lothian Health Board(LHB)). The papers mainly consist of business/administrative papers including, reports/official documentation, correspondence, meeting minutes, and promotional material, relating to the running of LHB spanning an extensive period of time, c1975 – c2000. It has been really interesting to gain some perspective into the running of a major organisation from top level management. Taking responsibility for health services at this level is clearly going to be a challenging task. It is extraordinary to see how day-to-day issues, longer-term strategic planning, and also unforeseen threats to public health, are dealt with simultaneously. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of the issues I have personally been tackling, in dealing with such a modern collection, is ensuring that appropriate Data Protection is placed on sensitive or confidential records. Opening up access to public records must be balanced by a legal requirement to protect sensitive, personal and confidential information under the Data Protection Act. Although this means that some of the records will be closed to public access, once all cataloguing and conservation work is complete there will still be an abundance of papers ready for further research and posterity. As well as a unique insight into the way in which LHB developed strategy and campaigns to tackle the spread of HIV/AIDS in Lothian, the papers of Helen Zealley will expand exploration into other areas of public health that LHB was responsible for. This includes papers relating to the developments of health promotion in education and medical specialisms, such as sexual health, non-smoking policy and environmental health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The collection also provides us with an overview of strategic planning and policy making at LHB, particularly at a time of financial crisis in the early 1990s and the implementation of cost-cutting measures.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I look forward to completing cataloguing GD25 and keeping you up-to-date with the rest of the project!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-51028684035700198062015-01-30T02:21:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:30.900-07:00Consolidate and Repair: The Conservation of Books<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Since the beginning of January, I have started to work on the main collections at LHSA. Although the Wellcome Trust project to conserve the HIV/AIDS collections is almost complete, my contract has been extended until June, so you will be hearing more of tales from the conservation studio over the next few months! During this time, I will be carrying out a range of conservation treatments such as consolidation and repair of bound volumes, surface cleaning and tear repair of flat sheet material, cold storage of x-rays, as well as supervising volunteers and interns working on architectural plans. I am really looking forward to the challenges that working with such a wide range of materials will bring. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For this blog post, I thought I would focus on what I have been working on for the past few weeks; the conservation of bound volumes. A common problem for books in the LHSA collections is the occurrence of red rot. For those of you who don’t work in a library, red rot is a degradation process found on leather bound books. It is characterised by a powdery layer on the surface of the book which, as archivists know, gets absolutely everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is also associated with the weakening of the material, so along with red rot, you often find torn leather and abraded edges. </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OJAkiCPU1jI/VMtUN421nDI/AAAAAAAABWU/s1ztCX2CZAE/s1600/P1100973.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OJAkiCPU1jI/VMtUN421nDI/AAAAAAAABWU/s1ztCX2CZAE/s1600/P1100973.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Example of red rot found on books</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Damage caused by red rot is irreversible. However, the spread of red rot can be retarded by treating the leather with a consolidant such as Klucel G in Industrial Methylated Spirit (IMS). First a museum vac with a low suction is used to remove the loose powdery material from the book. Then, a 2% solution is brushed on to areas affected by red rot and left to dry. Although this consolidates the powdery material, it doesn’t cure the leather of red rot, it will just prolong its life for longer. A slight darkening of the leather is sometimes caused by application of Klucel G, so often test areas are carried out prior to full application. Although discolouration of the leather is not ideal, it is sometimes better than doing nothing at all and allowing further damage to be caused to the book due to red rot. </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-953dbUd7FpQ/VMtVQSX_Y5I/AAAAAAAABWs/1tNDZc_fnJQ/s1600/P1100969.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-953dbUd7FpQ/VMtVQSX_Y5I/AAAAAAAABWs/1tNDZc_fnJQ/s1600/P1100969.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using a Museum Vac to remove powdery material</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WZJZ4-M_Duw/VMtVVMyM6nI/AAAAAAAABW0/b6NMyXUaXoE/s1600/P1100970.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WZJZ4-M_Duw/VMtVVMyM6nI/AAAAAAAABW0/b6NMyXUaXoE/s1600/P1100970.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using a brush to apply a 2% solution of Klucel G in IMS</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In some full leather bound books, red rot can cover the whole surface. In these cases, I decided not to consolidate the volume as it is difficult to get an even coverage over the whole book without causing streaking. Instead, with the help of volunteers Collette and Alice, I made book covers to protect these books. We made these from 650gsm boxboard tied with cotton tape. This allows for covers to be made without the use of adhesives, which speeds up the construction of the covers and ensures that the book is not affected by any potential off-gassing from the adhesive. These covers not only contain all the red rot and stop it spreading, but also protect the books whilst they are on the shelf. Often damage is caused on the shelf as adjacent books can be scraped by the corners of the volumes being removed and replaced, resulting in tearing of the leather. <o:p></o:p></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nDS4PhNjRUw/VMtXJtkI39I/AAAAAAAABXA/9mrAefWQkbY/s1600/Book%2Bshoe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nDS4PhNjRUw/VMtXJtkI39I/AAAAAAAABXA/9mrAefWQkbY/s1600/Book%2Bshoe.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A full leather book rehoused in a book cover</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nafJGq3W4pk/VMtXOVWxU0I/AAAAAAAABXI/LbhHoNUbvew/s1600/book%2Bdamage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nafJGq3W4pk/VMtXOVWxU0I/AAAAAAAABXI/LbhHoNUbvew/s1600/book%2Bdamage.jpg" height="320" width="216" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Example of book with torn and delaminated leather</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Another common problem in the LHSA collection is the detachment of boards and spines from bound volumes. This is usually found in books that are consulted frequently as the opening and closing actions causes these areas to weaken. To fix this, I used a couple of repair techniques taught to me by private book conservator, Caroline Scharfenberg, who also works at Edinburgh University. To secure loose and detached boards, I used a strip of fairly thick Japanese paper adhered to the inner spine joint with wheat starch paste. Although further work can be done, this provides a surprisingly strong repair and is suitable for the needs of the collection. If a spine has become detached, a new hollow can be made from archival paper to reattach it. A hollow is essentially a piece of paper that has been folded twice and glued together to create a tube. This is then affixed to the spine and the original cover material is glued to the hollow. When the book is opened, the hollow also opens allowing the spine to move naturally. These basic repair techniques will extend the life of the bound volumes significantly and prevent further damage occurring.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XdblHugvRL8/VMtaDbh8l0I/AAAAAAAABXc/_UlYP7Ex5iM/s1600/Book%2Bhollow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XdblHugvRL8/VMtaDbh8l0I/AAAAAAAABXc/_UlYP7Ex5iM/s1600/Book%2Bhollow.jpg" height="185" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Book, before treatment with a detached spine</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C8g86GI3XsE/VMtZBZNKYvI/AAAAAAAABXU/XJQcihozdmM/s1600/LHB7.7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C8g86GI3XsE/VMtZBZNKYvI/AAAAAAAABXU/XJQcihozdmM/s1600/LHB7.7.jpg" height="320" width="227" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Book, after treatment with spine reattached using a hollow</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The conservation of books is very different to the conservation of flat archival material that I am used to working with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although techniques are similar, the composite and 3D nature of the book provides new challenges to me as a paper conservator. I hope to learn more book repair techniques in the future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-53762059316653475452015-01-23T01:46:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:30.913-07:00East Fortune Magazine <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This week’s blog features two examples of <em>Fortune</em>magazine (LHB39/8/11-12) from the 1950s, an occasional publication by East Fortune Hospital in Drem, East Lothian. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The hospital was founded on the site of a former World War One naval airship station in 1922 and was used as a tuberculosis sanatorium and then later to look after children and adults with learning difficulties as the numbers of tuberculosis patients declined in the late 1950s. It finally closed in 1997.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The magazines claim to be for patients and the local community and each contains a substantial collection of articles, poetry and letters by staff and patients. Patients being treated for tuberculosis would often spend long periods resting in bed in reasonable health and would be grateful of something interesting to read. Typical article subjects include trips abroad and war stories. The 1955 issue includes a double-page spread of caricatures of the hospital staff!<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-trkmJoKN_dw/VMIX76xCozI/AAAAAAAABV8/ANNSe65Hp0I/s1600/Caricatures.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-trkmJoKN_dw/VMIX76xCozI/AAAAAAAABV8/ANNSe65Hp0I/s1600/Caricatures.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BnEnUMczGTQ/VMIX8CNsg_I/AAAAAAAABV4/LbRD5aAkv2c/s1600/Fortune%2B1955%2Bcover.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a> </div><em>Hospital staff from the 1955 edition (LHB39/8/11)</em><br /><em></em><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Both magazines feature striking screen printed colour covers. The one from 1955 is of the Bass Rock, a well-known landmark and bird sanctuary which can be seen along the coastline of East Lothian and Fife and is by Jemima Rennie. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BnEnUMczGTQ/VMIX8CNsg_I/AAAAAAAABV4/LbRD5aAkv2c/s1600/Fortune%2B1955%2Bcover.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BnEnUMczGTQ/VMIX8CNsg_I/AAAAAAAABV4/LbRD5aAkv2c/s1600/Fortune%2B1955%2Bcover.JPG" height="320" width="233" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Cover of the 1955 edition (LHB39/8/11)</span></em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The 1957 cover by George Millar features a glum looking individual with a walking stick and hunched posture entering what probably represents one of the huts which made up East Fortune Hospital in the upper picture. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dJgUGVPLcto/VMIX76vQ7HI/AAAAAAAABV0/ui4LJN-vRo8/s1600/Fortune%2B1957%2Bcover.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dJgUGVPLcto/VMIX76vQ7HI/AAAAAAAABV0/ui4LJN-vRo8/s1600/Fortune%2B1957%2Bcover.JPG" height="320" width="227" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></em></span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Cover of the 1957 edition (LHB39/8/12)</span></em></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the lower section, the same man is seen striding out of the hospital relieved of his infirmities. Although tuberculosis is often thought of as a lung disease it can also affect the bones and in particular the spine. The picture shows the level of confidence the hospital staff had that some of their patients could be fully restored and become productive members of society again. As the Countess of Haddington wishes readers in the 1955 foreword, ‘good fortune and health in the years to come’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-58558025016208074332015-01-16T06:41:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:30.967-07:00Adventures in outreach... <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Archivist Louise has been very much focused on genealogy this week….<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“On Monday 19<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> January, I’m off to talk to the Scottish Genealogy Society about the history of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital (REH). As with most archivists, outreach is a key part of my core work, and LHSA has worked with everyone from P7 schoolchildren to university students and retired NHS staff. Talks like these are not only a chance to introduce the uninitiated to archives and what you can find there, but are also a chance to introduce seasoned researchers (like the Scottish Genealogy Society!) to what LHSA can offer family historians.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">My talk on Monday will combine a history of the REH (which has recently celebrated its bicentenary) with a guide to what researchers can learn from our collections from the institution. Despite not being the largest of our hospital collections (our Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh papers have that distinction!), LHB7 (for the REH) is the one that is consulted most often - by academic researchers and genealogists alike. In addition to the fascinating history of psychiatry that all asylum collections can convey, I think that one of the reasons for the popularity of our REH records is that they recorded information so thoroughly – I’m sure that many of the medical and administrative staff would have made admirable archivists! <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Last year, 230 out of a total of 938 enquiries came from family historians – just under one quarter of the whole, which is quite a small number compared to many other archives. However, if you do find out that your relative was in hospital, health records can offer a great deal of biographical information to family historians. The REH collection is a case in point – and the excellent record-keeping skills of the institution means that I can often trace a patient from certification (compulsory admittance to the hospital, saying why the admission was thought necessary) to admission, case history, and finally discharge or (for the unlucky ones) death. Most of our family history enquiries about the Royal Edinburgh Hospital come to us after research of death and census records has led people to find that a relative has either died or was recorded as living in the REH (earlier known as the Royal Edinburgh Asylum).</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a5fpvV0sCDc/VLkgyRJPyCI/AAAAAAAABVg/ihwDg57nRwk/s1600/East%2BHouse%2B(EFR).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a5fpvV0sCDc/VLkgyRJPyCI/AAAAAAAABVg/ihwDg57nRwk/s1600/East%2BHouse%2B(EFR).jpg" height="177" width="320" /></a></div><br /><em>Sketch of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, 1808 (LHB7/57/1d)</em><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of all our REH records, the 121 case books that we hold from 1840 to 1932 are an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to delve deeper into personal or medical histories in a fascinating period of advancements in psychiatric care. Case records such as these come with caveats, of course – they only record what the physician and / or clerk thought to be relevant, many are governed by a printed pro-forma layout which determined how patients were described (and how much room there was to do that in), and notes on the progress of patients can be at times frustratingly short (for example, simply recording no change in condition, or whether the patient had lost or gained weight). Nevertheless, the detail that they offer is matched by few of our collections prior to the introduction of folder-based case notes. I can also be sure of finding a record for each patient in the hospital if they were resident in the period that case books were in active use. A further advantage is that they are indexed, meaning that the researcher (in a lot of cases, me!) can find an individual fairly quickly if no precise date of admission is known.</span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> </div><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">For the family historian, the case books not only contain biographical detail (such as the originating address, age and occupation of the patient), but also can tell you whether the patient paid fees, giving a hint of their financial circumstances. Fees were paid by patients across the hospital - East House (which was later demolished to make way for Craighouse, which opened in 1894) as well as in West House, which also took pauper patients. There were different levels of fees in each house – if your relative was in East House, you could assume that s/he (or the family) was reasonably well off, with fees costing up to £200 per annum in the late 1870s, compared to an intermediate rate of £45 for patients residing in West House.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MRzjYyFeCF4/VLkeD4KRNLI/AAAAAAAABVU/aZBLTg_euig/s1600/REH%2BCraig%2BHouse%2Bbilliard%2Broom%2BLHB7_7_10%2B1898.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MRzjYyFeCF4/VLkeD4KRNLI/AAAAAAAABVU/aZBLTg_euig/s1600/REH%2BCraig%2BHouse%2Bbilliard%2Broom%2BLHB7_7_10%2B1898.JPG" height="195" width="320" /></a></div><br /><em>The billiard room in Craig House, showing the level of accommodation offered to paying patients (from LHB7/7/10)</em><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reading case histories of ancestors in the REH can also lead researchers to new lines of enquiry. Not only were patients sometimes discharged to other institutions (leading their descendants in turn to new archives), but the clerk was required to record whether any hereditary history of mental illness was known, which can bring new histories to light. Reading these histories can be upsetting, no doubt, but they can also be compelling, and while some researchers can become upset that their relative was institutionalised, others have been impressed by the concern and care that was expressed in the case history, far beyond what they had been led to expect by the forbidding reputation of the ‘Victorian asylum.’ It’s also comforting to remember that these histories were written at a very different time, and that it is misleading to superimpose our current expectations of the treatment, definition and understanding of mental illness upon the past. However, what we can do is try to understand that past a little more, which is what academics, genealogists and archivists are all striving to do.”<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you’d like to learn more about how LHSA can help family historians, you can find more information here: </span><a href="http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/family/index.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.lhsa.lib.ed.ac.uk/family/index.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can find more about the Scottish Genealogy Society (where Louise will be speaking on Monday evening) here: </span><a href="http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;">http://www.scotsgenealogy.com/</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you would like LHSA to talk to your club or society about the work that we do, please contact us on </span><a href="mailto:lhsa@ed.ac.uk"><span style="font-family: inherit;">lhsa@ed.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> or 0131 650 3392</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NPixLJw7UPo/VLkcJzrbXbI/AAAAAAAABVE/SUP3YKHiZDA/s1600/Case_book_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a> </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-16492116852064720662015-01-09T08:23:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:30.978-07:00What’s on the cards for 2015?H<span style="font-family: Calibri;">appy New Year from the LHSA team! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2014 was a great year for LHSA – we recapped some of our highlights in our last blog before the Christmas break, ranging from completing major pieces of work and ongoing developments with our projects and internships, to new and exciting outreach and engagement and our recent Accredited Archive Status.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Having looked back, it’s now time for us to look forward to what the next 12 months have in store for the team.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of course our enquiries work continues to be a top priority for us; we saw a 10% increase in demand for our user services in 2014 so we will carry on helping to answer those research questions and meet the requests for access to LHSA material! But there will be a major change in this area. Laura, who has been with LHSA since 2007, has resigned as Archivist and Louise (who has been working as the Archivist since March last year when Laura went on a period of leave) will take over. We’re very sad to see Laura go, but she has exciting plans in Munich, where she has been for the last 10 months or so. We wish Laura all the very best and warmly welcome Louise to her new role, which will begin officially on 1 March.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our other core business will continue as usual, including bringing in material to the Archive (we already have our first accession of the new year!), cataloguing, and conservation/preservation. In the case of the latter, we’ll be seeing more of our bound volumes and loose sheet material treated to make sure they are available for research now and in the future. Our established programme for volunteers, students on placement and internships will also be developed in the coming months. This means that important, supervised, work to catalogue, conserve and promote our collections can be carried out while, at the same time, we’re able to offer valuable experience to those wishing to pursue careers in our sector. We already have one new volunteer and in a few months we’ll be starting some new outreach work with a John Lewis Golden Jubilee Trust award holder.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We’ll also be doing some exciting work on our Wellcome Trust funded projects. Clair joins us to complete the cataloguing of our HIV/AIDS collections, and Emily will be leading some new public engagement work, including the development of educational resources, with those collections. Our case note cataloguing work will carry on with the Norman Dott collections, and be joined by new work on our case notes that relate to TB and diseases of the chest.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The team are looking forward to the 2015 programme of outreach work within hospitals, and with staff from NHS Lothian and healthcare charities. This is something we do every year but it’s always different depending on the activities we’re getting involved with or the interests of the people with whom we’re collaborating. We’ll be helping to commemorate the 25<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>anniversary of St John’s Hospital and working with NHS Lothian colleagues to create new art installations drawing on archive material. We’ll also be offering talks and presentations to a wide variety of interest groups from the Scottish Genealogy Society to visitors to Edinburgh Central Library. The Central Library talk, open to all, will be on the 22<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup> of April at 2.30pm, looking at tracing patient experiences in the nineteenth century. You can book your free place here: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1xKHAp9"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://bit.ly/1xKHAp9</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And, of course, we will continue to support the University’s teaching programme with both our collections and our own areas of expertise. Our contribution to the regular undergraduate History in Practice sessions and the postgraduate module for the MSc History of the Book will be accompanied by our work with Widening Participation (for more information about this please see our recent ‘Broadsheet’ article at </span><a href="http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/broadsheet/issue31education.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/broadsheet/issue31education.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">), and events within Innovative Learning Week in February and the Festival of Museums in May.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We've already got a lot planned for the year ahead - we'll be kept busy building on our successes of last year. 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The water is heated to 33-36 degrees Celsius to keep the patients and their muscles warm, improving blood flow. Carrying out the exercises helps them build up their strength and increase the range of movements they can carry out. The water supports the body weight making it an ideal situation for rehabilitating weakened limbs without causing further injury. Hydrotherapy is usually focussed on slow controlled movement and relaxation of the patient. <br /><br />The use of immersion in water for treating illness dates back to ancient times. However in the 19th century in particular it was revived as a reliable treatment in western Europe, backed up by scientific research and publications. This is the hydrotherapy pool at the Princess Margaret Rose (PMR) Orthopaedic Hospital in approximately the 1950s, and comes from a pamphlet commemorating the hospital’s closure in 2001:<br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4wieeoxkNgE/VIraQkF94cI/AAAAAAAABUc/9MlWmrebFn8/s1600/PMR%2BHydrotherapy%2BPool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4wieeoxkNgE/VIraQkF94cI/AAAAAAAABUc/9MlWmrebFn8/s320/PMR%2BHydrotherapy%2BPool.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rzHoIgUudfc/VIraZ2WvJkI/AAAAAAAABUk/QFFt5VWfNbM/s1600/P_PL13_P_055%2BWGH%2BHydrotherapy%2BPool.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a> </div><br />The PMR Hospital was built in 1932 specifically to deal with crippling diseases in Scotland. At various times the causes of these disabilities included tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, road accidents, arthritis and rheumatism and using the pool helped with rehabilitation of the patients. The pool was popular with many staff and patients and originally the physiotherapists wore chest waders as they treated patients! <br /><br />The Western General Hospital also had a hydrotherapy pool and it continues to provide this type of treatment to this day. The image dates from approximately the early 1970s:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mFi53gPIwlQ/VIra0kk1Q7I/AAAAAAAABUs/GQNTengiMyM/s1600/P_PL13_P_055%2BWGH%2BHydrotherapy%2BPool.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mFi53gPIwlQ/VIra0kk1Q7I/AAAAAAAABUs/GQNTengiMyM/s1600/P_PL13_P_055%2BWGH%2BHydrotherapy%2BPool.JPG" height="224" width="320" /></a></div><br /><em>Hydrotherapy pool at the Western General Hospital, 1970s (P/PL13/P/055)</em> <br /><br />The hospital has been a centre of excellence in surgical neurology since 1960 and hydrotherapy provided treatment for patients recovering from paresis due to brain trauma and spinal surgery. Wards and clinics also likely to have made use of it would have included the orthopaedic department (which was open from 1960-1992) and the rheumatology department. <br /><br /><br /><strong>References</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/arthritis-information/therapies/hydrotherapy/what-is-hydrotherapy.aspx">http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/arthritis-information/therapies/hydrotherapy/what-is-hydrotherapy.aspx</a>Accessed 12.12.2014 <br /><br />Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital (1932-2001), Ed. Macnicol, M Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-61506010675270295952014-12-05T01:51:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:31.009-07:00Conserving Condoms: Modern Materials in Medical Archives<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>This week’s blog reviews the conservation symposium organised by LHSA and held at Edinburgh University last week….</em> <o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last Friday, LHSA and the CRC hosted “Conserving Condoms: Modern Materials in Medical Archives” at Edinburgh University. The event consisted of lectures, workshops and advice clinics that focused on the conservation of modern material, and grant application to the Wellcome Trust for conservation work. It was funded by the Wellcome Trust’s small grants scheme and inspired by the modern objects that I have found in the HIV/AIDS collections.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While working with these collections, I have come across many plastic items that were degrading in strange ways. As I researched these objects further, I found that there was a lot of contradictory research that was sometimes difficult to understand. Since the conservation of modern materials is a relatively new field, there is a general lack of understanding and confidence when treating these items. Also, because the items are newer, they are often not treated with as much care as older items, even though they may have equal historical importance. We thought a symposium on the subject would be a great way to share knowledge, encourage debate and dispel any myths surrounding these modern materials. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Pgm0uyNbpKs/VIF54ITwgII/AAAAAAAABTk/Uoe99-YaPwQ/s1600/blog%2Bposter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Pgm0uyNbpKs/VIF54ITwgII/AAAAAAAABTk/Uoe99-YaPwQ/s1600/blog%2Bposter.jpg" height="320" width="226" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Poster used to advertise the event</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The event proved to be extremely popular, with tickets selling out within a month. Students, interns and professionals came from all over the UK to find out more about this complex subject. The day kicked off with a keynote lecture by Dr Anita Quye, Lecturer in Conservation Science at the University of Glasgow. Anita’s main area of research is modern materials analysis, so she was ideally placed to start the proceedings. She defined exactly what the difference is between plastics and rubbers, and then went on to describe how these plastics can degrade and how to identify them. Anita focused on four of the most problematic plastics that are commonly found in heritage collections; cellulose acetate, PVC, polyurethane and cellulose nitrate. Inspired by the title of the symposium, Anita also gave us a fascinating insight into the conservation of condoms! Condoms are well preserved by their foil packet, as it has good vapour barrier characteristics and prevents the ingress of moisture, light and oxygen. In fact, the foil packet is made from a very similar material to Moistop Barrier Film™, which is frequently used in the storage and transport of museum objects!<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xNSHhPKyMHM/VIF6JhVfg0I/AAAAAAAABTs/4-bli01jGrw/s1600/P1100815.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xNSHhPKyMHM/VIF6JhVfg0I/AAAAAAAABTs/4-bli01jGrw/s1600/P1100815.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr Anita Quye giving her keynote lecture on the conservation of modern materials</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sniffing modern objects was the topic of the next talk by Linda Ramsay, Head of Conservation at the National Records of Scotland. She discussed <a href="http://www.strath.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/lorrainegibson/heritagesmells/" target="_blank">‘Heritage Smells!’</a> a collaborative project led by the University of Strathclyde that aimed to identify plastics by taking air samples surrounding the items. Plastics release specific volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) as they age. By capturing and analysing these VOC’s, conservators can identify the plastic and also detect any chemicals emitted by the items that are potentially harmful to humans or neighbouring objects. An interesting case study Linda highlighted was a postcard (screen print on yellow transparent PVC) by Joseph Beuys at the National Galleries of Scotland. A large amount of “sweat” was present on the surface of the artefact, which was assumed to be caused by the loss of plasticiser. Interestingly, Beuys named this piece “Flowing Honey”, which makes us wonder; did he know the plastic would sweat? Did he choose to use this material for this effect?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or is the name just a coincidence!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After a short break, Ruth Honeybone, Archive Manage at LHSA gave a presentation about scoping for conservation work and how to put together a successful funding bid. Ruth talked about the practicalities of deciding what to treat, how to treat it and the materials and equipment needed, how long it will take, who should do the work and where and, most importantly, how much it will cost. To be able to tap into various funding schemes is key for many smaller institutions and this sharing of knowledge was extremely beneficial to many. <o:p></o:p></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yMOJ6-UHMvk/VIF7-H6n5gI/AAAAAAAABUE/dfNbefPR12g/s1600/ruth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yMOJ6-UHMvk/VIF7-H6n5gI/AAAAAAAABUE/dfNbefPR12g/s1600/ruth.jpg" height="239" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruth Honeybone discussing scoping out for conservation funding applications</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Following Ruth’s explanation on how she put together a successful bid which led to the HIV/AIDS project, it was my turn to talk about the conservation of it. I chose to talk about the some of the storage solutions I had designed for problem plastics in the HIV/AIDS collections. I have talked about these in previous blogs such as <a href="http://lhsa.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/thinking-about-box-storage-of-plastics.html" target="_blank">“Thinking about the Box: Storage of Plastics”.</a> I wanted to share these solutions in the hope that they could be used for all types of collections and not just modern ones. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After lunch, Sue Crossley and Amy Vickery (Grant Advisors from the Wellcome Trust) discussed the various funding streams available for conservation at the Wellcome Trust. The <a href="http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Medical-humanities/Funding-schemes/Support-for-archives-and-records/index.htm" target="_blank">Wellcome Trust Research Resources</a> grant scheme funds the preservation, conservation, cataloguing and digitisation of significant medical history collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland. There are lots of funding opportunities available and Amy and Sue were both very open and willing to answer all funding related questions. They suggest getting in touch and talking to a member of the team directly to discuss any potential projects. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WC8GIaJCcMw/VIF8EE8IYAI/AAAAAAAABUM/usoxVrcA2V4/s1600/Amy%2Band%2Bsue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WC8GIaJCcMw/VIF8EE8IYAI/AAAAAAAABUM/usoxVrcA2V4/s1600/Amy%2Band%2Bsue.jpg" height="239" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sue Crossley and Amy Vickery describing the funding streams available at the Wellcome Trust</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Next it was time for the workshop section of the symposium and the group broke up to go to separate discussion groups based on their interests. Some people stayed with Anita to discuss the conservation of modern materials further, others joined Linda and Saho (Paper Conservator at National Records of Scotland) to find out more about the ‘Heritage Smells!’ project, while some joined Claire Knowles (Library Digital Development Manager) and Kirsty Lee (Digital Curator), both from Edinburgh University, to consider the challenge of digital preservation – another very modern problem in our collections. I hosted a workshop on ‘Ethics and Plastic Packaging’ which looked at the ethical issues surrounding the removal of certain packaging items from collections and how this can alter the meaning and understanding of the material. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MxbrESOYVI8/VIF65grMyNI/AAAAAAAABT8/IrHQNnewt2Y/s1600/P1100827.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MxbrESOYVI8/VIF65grMyNI/AAAAAAAABT8/IrHQNnewt2Y/s1600/P1100827.JPG" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Workshop group discussing ethics and plastic packaging</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The day ended with tea, coffee, cake and advice clinics. These were informal one to one clinics where delegates could talk to the speakers directly about specific points. It was also an opportunity for the participants to discuss the topics raised throughout the day and to network. There was also the chance to have a tour of the CRC and conservation studio with Conservation Officer, Emma Davey. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Overall, the event was really well received with many positive comments and feedback from participants. I think the interest in this day points to the growing concern surrounding the conservation of modern materials and the need for further information on the subject. Hopefully, based on the success of this event, many more like it will be hosted at Edinburgh University in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-80942140535824441342014-11-28T04:26:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:31.020-07:00Occupational Therapy: history behind the photographs<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I am coming to the end of my ten week internship at LHSA, working on the photograph collection, I have come across a selection of photographs from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital (REH) that led me to do some further investigation. The following set of photographs show patients from the REH carrying out activities in occupational therapy (OT). OT, in principal, endeavours to improve mental and physical health by providing practical support and activities, for individuals suffering from a wide range of conditions. OT helps individuals apply themselves in practical activities, from day-to-day tasks, such as preparing meals, to work and leisure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This helps to bring purpose to people’s lives and helps them to live as independently as possible, which plays a key role in rehabilitation and helping the recovery of many health related conditions. Improving general outlook and well-being are also key concepts of the role of occupational therapy.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/ecourse/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/CEEV14KN/Final%20blog%20OT.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bvvMDe1BLno/VHhn5b6YEKI/AAAAAAAABSc/zLj0EzQckjs/s1600/P_PL7_P_068%2BGarden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bvvMDe1BLno/VHhn5b6YEKI/AAAAAAAABSc/zLj0EzQckjs/s1600/P_PL7_P_068%2BGarden.jpg" height="257" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A garden created by the patients at MacKinnon House over the past few years and now maintained by them, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P/PL7/P/068<o:p></o:p></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wBQHwdPbPwk/VHhoERaeGrI/AAAAAAAABSk/5OjuzHioXrM/s1600/P_PL7_P_066%2BKeep%2Bfit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wBQHwdPbPwk/VHhoERaeGrI/AAAAAAAABSk/5OjuzHioXrM/s1600/P_PL7_P_066%2BKeep%2Bfit.jpg" height="289" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Keep fit class, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P/P7/P/066<o:p></o:p></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Whilst the roots of the development could be arguably traced back to China in 2600 BC, when <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cong Fu </i>was taught as “medical gymnastics” where physical training was believed to promote health</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/ecourse/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/CEEV14KN/Final%20blog%20OT.docx" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">; I decided to try and track the developments at a more local level. It was not until around the eighteenth century that new approaches were beginning to take shape in the treatment of psychiatric patients by founding fathers, such as French physician Philippe Pinel, in moral treatment. This was a more humane approach to treatment of the mentally ill that preferred the use of practical therapy over incarceration or punishment. In his book published in 1801 Pinel prescribes, “physical exercises and manual occupations” for mental illness because “rigours executed manual labour is the best method of securing good morale discipline. The return of convalescent patients to their previous interests, to the practice of their profession, to industriousness and perseverance have always been for me the best omen of finial recovery”.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/ecourse/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/CEEV14KN/Final%20blog%20OT.docx" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whilst OT was also evolving in the treatment of physical conditions, it was this relationship between OT and the treatment of mental illness, where some pioneering work was demonstrated in Edinburgh hospitals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sWJShgVqbUo/VHhoTFQ1t5I/AAAAAAAABSs/QATLDG0-ISM/s1600/P_PL7_P_065%2BPacking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sWJShgVqbUo/VHhoTFQ1t5I/AAAAAAAABSs/QATLDG0-ISM/s1600/P_PL7_P_065%2BPacking.jpg" height="292" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">An important recent development is the introduction of industry into the hospital through the co-operation of outside firms, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P/PL7/P/065<o:p></o:p></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2ON1hpIFLs0/VHhog8hAWUI/AAAAAAAABS0/-VigKQ0Nwg4/s1600/P_PL7_P_067%2BCooking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2ON1hpIFLs0/VHhog8hAWUI/AAAAAAAABS0/-VigKQ0Nwg4/s1600/P_PL7_P_067%2BCooking.jpg" height="283" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A cooking lesson, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P/PL7/P/067<o:p></o:p></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dr D.K. Henderson (1884 – 1965) was a Scottish born physician. He was a Physician Superintendent of the REH and a Professor of Psychiatry, through the hospital’s links with the University of Edinburgh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pictures from this collection would have been taken at a much later date, from Dr Henderson’s time at REH but they demonstrate some of his founding work there. A balance of farming, gardening work, as well as domestic and craft activities tailored to the patient’s condition, are examples of OT that he believed could, “increase a person’s self-esteem [due to the] ability to accomplish something”.</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/ecourse/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/CEEV14KN/Final%20blog%20OT.docx" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These sorts of activities could also create structure and organisation to a patient’s day, creating a balance between work, rest and play. Henderson believed this ultimately helped individuals adapt and removed feelings of hopelessness. By 1932 he had encouraged the founding of the Scottish Association of Occupational Therapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u347NX5J2rk/VHhoy5M7i7I/AAAAAAAABS8/M11jTMAXGTs/s1600/P_PL7_P_061Typing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u347NX5J2rk/VHhoy5M7i7I/AAAAAAAABS8/M11jTMAXGTs/s1600/P_PL7_P_061Typing.jpg" height="320" width="277" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Instruction in typing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P/PL7/P/061<o:p></o:p></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"> </div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rySuVK5Wpo8/VHho8naCTpI/AAAAAAAABTE/ZcV24k9hK7k/s1600/P_PL7_P_062%2BChickens.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rySuVK5Wpo8/VHho8naCTpI/AAAAAAAABTE/ZcV24k9hK7k/s1600/P_PL7_P_062%2BChickens.jpg" height="296" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A corner of the farm, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P/PL7/P/062<o:p></o:p></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"> </div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For individuals suffering from more physically debilitating conditions, OT was also being encouraged as a form of treatment. <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Casualties resulting from the First World War saw many men facing adapting back into civilian life with debilitating injuries and a lack of employment support.<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></sup>Curative workshops were opened within military hospitals, based on similar workshops already established in the United States, and were equipped with tools and machinery to exercise joints and muscles. Application in work based tasks could, therefore, help in physical healing and strengthening help but also in rehabilitating into society with permanent disabilities. Based on these workshops the first occupational therapy department in Scotland was opened in 1936 at the Astley Ainslie Institution in Edinburgh. </span>The Astley Ainslie grew from being a convalescent hospital to become a leading rehabilitation centre and school for training occupational therapists.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M5GlhWT4G-Q/VHhpNOl9x3I/AAAAAAAABTM/57m9xnKTT8w/s1600/P_PL7_P_064%2BTable.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M5GlhWT4G-Q/VHhpNOl9x3I/AAAAAAAABTM/57m9xnKTT8w/s1600/P_PL7_P_064%2BTable.jpg" height="290" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">An important recent development is the introduction of industry into the hospital through the co-operation of outside firms, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P/PL7/P/064<o:p></o:p></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2eoKWf67hM0/VHhpWR7o5qI/AAAAAAAABTU/SoFKzI1hKpE/s1600/P_PL7_P_063%2BBaking.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2eoKWf67hM0/VHhpWR7o5qI/AAAAAAAABTU/SoFKzI1hKpE/s1600/P_PL7_P_063%2BBaking.jpg" height="274" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Brush up your baking, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P/PL7/P/063<o:p></o:p></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">From these early days of establishing the role that OT could play in improving health and wellbeing, we can see that as the profession has grown, it is still very relevant in society today.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--> <br /><div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/ecourse/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/CEEV14KN/Final%20blog%20OT.docx" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">College of Occupational Therapists:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.cot.co.uk/ot-helps-you/what-occupational-therapy"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">http://www.cot.co.uk/ot-helps-you/what-occupational-therapy</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last Accessed 27/11/14.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/ecourse/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/CEEV14KN/Final%20blog%20OT.docx" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hopkins, H. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">An Historical Willard and Spackman’s Occupational Therapy </i>(Sixth Edition, USA:1983), p. 3.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div></div><div id="ftn3" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/ecourse/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/CEEV14KN/Final%20blog%20OT.docx" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[3]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ibid, p. 4.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div id="ftn4" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/ecourse/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/CEEV14KN/Final%20blog%20OT.docx" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[4]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> <span class="addmd1"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Creek</span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, J. Occupational Therapy and Mental Health </span></i><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(Elsevier:2008), p.9.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-7676585185190008122014-11-21T00:58:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:31.034-07:00‘Thought is the Seed of Action’… Neurosurgery on screen<em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This week's blog is from Liz, our Project Cataloguing Archivist on our Wellcome Trust -unded case note cataloguing project.</span></em><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A letter I came across this week, while continuing with my cataloguing of Norman Dott’s neurosurgical case notes, led me to looking into a ground-breaking <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(and somewhat controversial) BBC television series, ‘Your Life in Their Hands’. The letter was from a former patient of Dott’s who had been successfully treated by him and his team in the Department of Surgical Neurology at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1954. She opens her letter by referring to his appearance on the BBC series broadcast on 11 March 1958. Dott’s reply is also contained in the case note, ‘How kind it was for you to write on the occasion of our Departmental Broadcast. It was quite interesting to consider what would interest people and the split-second technical side of it was quite an experience’. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The series featured ten programmes each looking at a different medical condition and how it was treated. Each of the programmes came from different hospitals around Great Britain, and in Dott’s case the focus was the treatment of head injuries in the Department of Surgical Neurology at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Bangour Brain Injuries Unit. Other episodes featured the treatment of conditions including respiratory paralysis following poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, rheumatic fever and mitral stenosis. The broadcasts were presented by Dr Charles Fletcher and aimed to provide clear information to the public about medical conditions and the modern techniques being used to treat them. What made the programmes so notable was the inclusion of footage of surgical operations taking place. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8dfwsOmybyk/VG4cI_tkzrI/AAAAAAAABSE/GA8IkZrr_xI/s1600/GD28-2-10.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8dfwsOmybyk/VG4cI_tkzrI/AAAAAAAABSE/GA8IkZrr_xI/s1600/GD28-2-10.JPG" height="245" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">BBC filming of an operation at the Western General Hospital, GD28/8/2/10</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The episode featuring Dott was entitled ‘Thought is the Seed of Action – a look at neurosurgery from the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately we have a copy of the transcript for the programme in our collections, as well as a VHS recording (which I look forward to watching at a later date). The broadcast opens with Dr Fletcher introducing the subject and then handing over to Professor Dott who describes the Royal Infirmary as a general hospital that ‘deals with all the ills that flesh is heir to’ and he makes sure to credit all the staff at the Hospital with the valuable work done there, ‘Nor would our work be at all possible without our nurses and our large background staff’. Several members of the Surgical Neurology team also feature in the broadcast including Dr F J Gillingham, Dr Kate Herman, and Mr Philip Harris, with Mr Harris describing the brain as a ‘complex organ’ which can be compared to ‘the BBC and a vast telephone exchange. Messages are constantly coming into it – and are being received, interpreted, recorded as memories and messages are constantly being sent out to other parts of the body’. The programme looked at how patients were assessed, treated and their rehabilitation, with a focus on the treatment of a young man who sustained a head injury while playing football. As a result of his injury he developed a blood clot which is shown being operated on by Dott and his team. The programme signs off with a warning to motorcyclists about the importance of wearing crash helmets. The inclusion of Dott’s Department in the series was testament to the important work they were carrying out. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LGzOmfY9YpA/VG4cbZF-nVI/AAAAAAAABSM/gj4GixJTquw/s1600/Acc%2BNov%2B1999%2Btranscript.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LGzOmfY9YpA/VG4cbZF-nVI/AAAAAAAABSM/gj4GixJTquw/s1600/Acc%2BNov%2B1999%2Btranscript.jpg" height="320" width="227" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Transcript of 'Your Life in Their Hands'</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">‘Your Life in Their Hands’ was met with a mixed response, on the whole well received by the public and press, with the exception of the British Medical Journal, who were opposed to the series and who published several articles about it in 1958. They believed the series would heighten public fears of illness and increase hypochondriasis. The discussion even made it into the House of Commons with a question being raised on 26 February 1958 about the potential ill effect the programmes may have on the public. Despite the initial unease felt <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the candid and graphic depictions of medical treatment in 1958, ‘Your Life in Their Hands’ was a huge success with further series being made over the last 50 years and the presence of medical documentaries on television becoming commonplace now. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For more information see:</span><br /><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">M. Essex-Lopresti; “The 50th anniversary of ‘Your Life in Their Hands”, <a href="http://search.wellcomelibrary.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1646713__Sjournal%20visual%20communication%20medicine__Orightresult__X5;jsessionid=FA79DF57B2A6EF1543015526E66B6763?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank" title="Journal of visual communication, Mar 2008, pp36-42"><em><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">J. Vis. Commun. Med.</span></em></a>, vol 31 no.1, March 2008:36-42</span></span><o:p></o:p></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-10757372973650868842014-11-14T04:08:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:31.045-07:00Explore our Archive<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today, we’re coming to the end of <a href="http://www.exploreyourarchive.org/" target="_blank">Explore Your Archive</a> week, an initiative from the <a href="http://www.archives.org.uk/" target="_blank">Archives and Records Association</a> that aims to raise the profile of archives and their role in our everyday lives. Archives can risk being seen as dusty and irrelevant, telling us about the past but with little relevance to how we live our lives now. In Explore Your Archive week, we need to say very much the opposite – archives not only preserve our memories, but also act as vital evidence for the present and future to ensure that our society is run openly and fairly.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Climbing off my soapbox for a minute, we have been having some serious fun in Explore Your Archive week! We’ve been taking part on Twitter, joining together with archivists from across the United Kingdom and Ireland (and also worldwide!) who have been tweeting on a different theme every day. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Monday was an insight into a #DayInTheLife of archivists, peeking into what archivists get up to all day in the office and amongst the stacks in the stores. From work in the search-room to cataloguing to taking part in talks and lectures, a great variety of activity was on show. It had been an enquiries day for me, seeking out images like this one...</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O2P02rv_BiY/VGXsQiGeolI/AAAAAAAABRE/Yn7Qinc1bgA/s1600/P_PL7_P_038%2BHouse%2Binterior%2BApr%2B1959.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O2P02rv_BiY/VGXsQiGeolI/AAAAAAAABRE/Yn7Qinc1bgA/s1600/P_PL7_P_038%2BHouse%2Binterior%2BApr%2B1959.jpg" height="320" width="258" /></a></div><br /><em>At work in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital hen house, April 1959 (P/PL7/P/038)</em><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">...</span>as well as researching people’s ancestors though our asylum records. The case books of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital are not our largest collection, but they are certainly the most popular with researchers.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On Tuesday, First World War archives were the focus (#ww1archives). This year, we’re getting a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lot of enquiries about the period for obvious reasons. Although we can’t help people with soldiers’ medical records, we have a wealth of sources giving a glimpse into everyday life in Edinburgh’s hospitals during the war, including nurses’ scrapbooks like this one from Bangour Village Hospital (taken over by the War Office in 1915):<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LnBrnXHZks4/VGXtb6QC_wI/AAAAAAAABRQ/cuh4HYQVpBE/s1600/Bangour_war_message.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LnBrnXHZks4/VGXtb6QC_wI/AAAAAAAABRQ/cuh4HYQVpBE/s1600/Bangour_war_message.jpg" height="263" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /><em>Scrapbook from a Bangour nurse, c. 1917 (Acc13/044)</em></span> <span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wednesday saw a </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">chance for Twitter followers to #askarchivists. Although I didn’t take any questions myself, queries ranged from oldest archives to guides to academic and genealogical research. And don’t worry if you didn’t get your question in on the day, because as one participant said: “<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Archivists don't just answer questions one day a year! We do it all day, every day!”</span><o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We took an #archiveselfie on Thursday – here are our wonderful CRC conservators, posing with their favourite equipment:<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JyPqb71Ii-Y/VGXt0hEnWUI/AAAAAAAABRY/4y8y0G-eGo8/s1600/Edith%2Band%2Bpackaging%2B004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JyPqb71Ii-Y/VGXt0hEnWUI/AAAAAAAABRY/4y8y0G-eGo8/s1600/Edith%2Band%2Bpackaging%2B004.JPG" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><em></em><br /><em>Our CRC conservators, left to right: Emma, Ruth, Anna and Emily.</em><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My own favourite 'selfie story' was that of Edith Halvarsson, who’s been with us from the Information Management and Preservation MSc at the University of Glasgow. In two weeks, she’s very much explored archives and taken the papers of the Medical Women’s Federation from this:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R6P3vONBHwQ/VGXuERd3O3I/AAAAAAAABRg/biSIQEnaOeY/s1600/Acc12_030_before.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R6P3vONBHwQ/VGXuERd3O3I/AAAAAAAABRg/biSIQEnaOeY/s1600/Acc12_030_before.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></a></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Medical Women's Federation papers before cataloguing</em></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To this:<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></o:p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qmi7i8RITPU/VGXuHOys5ZI/AAAAAAAABRo/ADezq4sVhOU/s1600/Edith!.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qmi7i8RITPU/VGXuHOys5ZI/AAAAAAAABRo/ADezq4sVhOU/s1600/Edith!.jpg" height="282" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> <br /><em>Edith with a beautifully ordered trolley!</em><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As the ‘mad cat lady’ of the office, I’m ready to post pictures of our #archiveanimals today (cats and dogs, for example, can often be found in both informal and formal images of hospital staff). Here’s one with First World War soldiers recuperating with the help of some feline friends at Edenhall Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers:</span></div><o:p><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span></o:p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QzaoP4weBA8/VGXukYZd9sI/AAAAAAAABR0/c3q0QMsh8IU/s1600/Edenhall_cat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QzaoP4weBA8/VGXukYZd9sI/AAAAAAAABR0/c3q0QMsh8IU/s1600/Edenhall_cat.jpg" height="320" width="249" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>First World War image from a photograph album from Edenhall Hospital, c. 1917 (Acc12/054)</em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Explore Your Archive initiative doesn’t end today for LHSA. Worth a mention is our participation in the Previously… festival over the next couple of weeks. The Previously... festival celebrates Scotland’s history with events all over the country. On Saturday 15 November, we’ll be at the Family History Day in Edinburgh Central Library on George IV Bridge (and tweeting, with the hashtag #explorearchives). From 10:30am until 4pm, you can come along and ask Ruth and Louise everything you’ve ever wanted to know about finding family history in hospital records. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On Tuesday 18<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> November here at the Centre for Research Collections, Louise is going to be talking about how to use our records in genealogy, with a chance to get up close and personal with some of our nineteenth century patient records: <a href="http://www.historyfest.co.uk/2014-events/november-18">http://www.historyfest.co.uk/2014-events/november-18</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And on Saturday 22<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">nd</span></sup> November, we’re running a children’s event on making your very own medieval manuscript! <a href="http://www.historyfest.co.uk/2014-events/november-22">http://www.historyfest.co.uk/2014-events/november-22</a><o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We need to speak up for and use archives to keep them alive, so come and visit LHSA at these events – and Explore Our Archive!<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-685040181349406502014-11-07T03:57:00.000-08:002015-04-29T12:54:31.056-07:00Exploring LHSA's photographic collection<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I am currently the LHSA intern and I am at the halfway point of my main task of cataloguing the vast and varied photographic collection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a (very) newly qualified archivist, this has been such a great opportunity for me to work full-time and engage with the skills that I have developed over the last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I volunteered with LHSA throughout gaining my qualification, I have equally enjoyed becoming part of the team, including the glorious views of Edinburgh from my desk and copious amounts of home-baking at tea break.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">My main task has been to bring all of the LHSA photographic collection under the same system to ensure maximum access to over 6000 photographs, documenting many </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">aspects of the development of medicine and hospitals from the mid-nineteenth century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the photographs that I have been working with thus far, I would like to share with you some of my favourites and others that I have found rather interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9ISJvNBqafo/VFyXeA0wWLI/AAAAAAAABQc/ObIeUrZWTlI/s1600/sheep.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9ISJvNBqafo/VFyXeA0wWLI/AAAAAAAABQc/ObIeUrZWTlI/s1600/sheep.jpg" height="208" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This photograph is from c. 1879-1910 and is a view of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, from the Meadows, with sheep grazing in the foreground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whilst it is a lovely image of the grand hospital, I was rather surprised to see sheep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a student I often enjoyed spending hot and sunny days at the Meadows but I am not sure how students nowadays would feel sharing it with these woolly beasts.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5zWn8TmOw_w/VFyXhTy8lfI/AAAAAAAABQk/Qmus0lRI1T4/s1600/sunlight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5zWn8TmOw_w/VFyXhTy8lfI/AAAAAAAABQk/Qmus0lRI1T4/s1600/sunlight.jpg" height="231" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Moving on, some of the photographs have been really interesting in their depiction of medical treatments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have been learning about ‘sunlight treatment’ from this picture taken c. 1930 - 1950 at Deaconess Hospital. This is a photo of a child lying on an operating table being exposed to bright light with two seated children and a nurse standing at the side, all wearing protective goggles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would certainly be a controversial treatment now was in fact a regular treatment for many children and adults between 1920 and 1950.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The artificial light lamp was invented by </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Niels Ryberg Finsen </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">and was thought to be of most benefit to those suffering from </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">tuberculosis of the skin.<a href="file:///C:/Users/lwillia5/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/G7D47MAV/Blog%202%20with%20pictures.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rzoabxYjUpM/VFyX5r6s9pI/AAAAAAAABQs/Jv0KAvIZMVQ/s1600/Laws_xray.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rzoabxYjUpM/VFyX5r6s9pI/AAAAAAAABQs/Jv0KAvIZMVQ/s1600/Laws_xray.jpg" height="236" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This is a photograph from the very early days of using x-ray to diagnose patients, around 1900.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William Law is pictured here wearing protective clothing and radiography apparatus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Law was one of the first radiographers at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, which opened a </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">‘Medical Electrical Department’ in 1889.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The protective clothing is particularly distinctive and highlights the dangers of this type of work in the early days of its use. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wTCpBIbbutk/VFyYQq3nHpI/AAAAAAAABQ0/XW7hoG65Fu4/s1600/Knox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wTCpBIbbutk/VFyYQq3nHpI/AAAAAAAABQ0/XW7hoG65Fu4/s1600/Knox.jpg" height="320" width="220" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">Finally, the LHSA photographic collection has an excellent selection of portrait photographs of Edinburgh medical greats working as physicians, surgeons, nurses and as other medical practitioners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In keeping with the theme of pioneering radiology in Edinburgh here is a portrait of Robert Knox, d. 1928.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Knox was Consultant Radiologist at Chelsea Hospital for Women, but his work in treating cancer with x-rays played a major role in setting up the new Radiological Department of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1926.<a href="file:///C:/Users/lwillia5/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/G7D47MAV/Blog%202%20with%20pictures.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whilst he is certainly not the most famous ‘Robert Knox’ associated with medicine in Edinburgh, it has been nice to highlight the positive advances this Knox brought, in comparison with the notorious Robert Knox associated with the Burke and Hare murders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><o:p></o:p></span> </div><div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I look forward to the rest of my time working with the photographs at LHSA and hope to find more unique images from this exciting collection.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--> <br /><div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/lwillia5/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/G7D47MAV/Blog%202%20with%20pictures.docx" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-092-041-C&searchdb=scran"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-092-041-C&searchdb=scran</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last accessed 06/11/14<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div></div><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--> <br /><div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/lwillia5/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/G7D47MAV/Blog%202%20with%20pictures.docx" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #0563c1;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/techniques/heliotherapy.aspx"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: Calibri; font-size: x-small;">http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/techniques/heliotherapy.aspx</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last accessed 06/11/14.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wTCpBIbbutk/VFyYQq3nHpI/AAAAAAAABQ0/XW7hoG65Fu4/s1600/Knox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-66304346583354007642014-10-31T08:00:00.000-07:002015-04-29T12:54:31.068-07:00Looking forward to Tweeting you <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">LHSA has a very rich, diverse photograph collection, dating back to the early years of photography. To help celebrate this, and highlight some of the less well-known images and stories, we have decided to put up a series of themed images on Twitter in the following weeks. As a quick taster of what's to come, here are just a few:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-75GhL2TbcJE/VFOjSxrOwvI/AAAAAAAABPk/tkeiSnzCggg/s1600/GD14a_1_2%2BA%2BCrobie%2Band%2Bvolunteer%2Boutside%2BRIE%2Bblood%2BTransfusion%2BService%2C%2B1940s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-75GhL2TbcJE/VFOjSxrOwvI/AAAAAAAABPk/tkeiSnzCggg/s1600/GD14a_1_2%2BA%2BCrobie%2Band%2Bvolunteer%2Boutside%2BRIE%2Bblood%2BTransfusion%2BService%2C%2B1940s.jpg" height="245" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A delivery to the Blood Transfusion Service at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1940s.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7mfEU2AXjjc/VFOjXzsCGaI/AAAAAAAABQI/uY8xddZ9jIc/s1600/LHB8A_9_1_2%2BDr%2BMargaret%2BMartin%2BPaediatrician%2Bat%2BEIMMH.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7mfEU2AXjjc/VFOjXzsCGaI/AAAAAAAABQI/uY8xddZ9jIc/s1600/LHB8A_9_1_2%2BDr%2BMargaret%2BMartin%2BPaediatrician%2Bat%2BEIMMH.jpg" height="320" width="217" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr Margaret Martin, Paediatrician at the Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BtH-Oml7cgk/VFOjX2Cn0PI/AAAAAAAABPw/Bw5Hs9zAfno/s1600/PH16_26%2BBVH%2Bstaff%2Bwith%2BHarry%2BLauder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BtH-Oml7cgk/VFOjX2Cn0PI/AAAAAAAABPw/Bw5Hs9zAfno/s1600/PH16_26%2BBVH%2Bstaff%2Bwith%2BHarry%2BLauder.jpg" height="226" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Bangour Village Hospital staff and Harry Lauder, 1942.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JyErAPmgLFY/VFOjYcEjOsI/AAAAAAAABP4/1fze2Gcv_bY/s1600/P_PL7_P_031%2BREH%2BOccupational%2BTherapy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JyErAPmgLFY/VFOjYcEjOsI/AAAAAAAABP4/1fze2Gcv_bY/s1600/P_PL7_P_031%2BREH%2BOccupational%2BTherapy.jpg" height="239" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Occupational therapy in the Royal Edinburgh Hospital garden, c1960.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Qdy9DoZ5cs/VFOjX5EScAI/AAAAAAAABPs/CGMXM8jq0eg/s1600/P_PL1_W_056%2BWard%2B14%2C%2B1937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8Qdy9DoZ5cs/VFOjX5EScAI/AAAAAAAABPs/CGMXM8jq0eg/s1600/P_PL1_W_056%2BWard%2B14%2C%2B1937.jpg" height="229" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ward 14 at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1937.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O8YtZkZsSt4/VFOjYkKgQzI/AAAAAAAABQA/T6ce7gTJQM0/s1600/RIE%2BResidents%2B1854.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O8YtZkZsSt4/VFOjYkKgQzI/AAAAAAAABQA/T6ce7gTJQM0/s1600/RIE%2BResidents%2B1854.jpg" height="307" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Residents 1854 (resident first year doctors) including pioneer of antiseptics, Joseph Lister, front row, third from the right.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span> </div><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">To see more great images, look out for our tweets in the next few weeks. If you haven’t joined us on Twitter, our account can be found at </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://twitter.com/lhsaeul"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #6699ff;">https://twitter.com/lhsaeul</span></span></a>.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3341270473294071226.post-80141897115137150912014-10-24T09:02:00.000-07:002015-04-29T12:54:31.079-07:00Seeing our History: Edinburgh's Register of the Outdoor Blind <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Over the last few months I have been helping as a LHSA volunteer on the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) Scotland project ‘Seeing our History - Living with Sight Loss in Edwardian Edinburgh and the Lothians’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the backing of Heritage Lottery Funding, this project brings expertise and volunteers together from many different backgrounds to help to unlock the history of what life was like for blind and partially-sighted people in Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland during the Edwardian period.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According to RNIB, the experiences of blind and partially sighted people have been largely neglected in areas of social and cultural history, but by bringing to life a resource from the RNIB Scotland/Edinburgh and Lothians Archive, now held at LHSA, teams of experts and volunteers are about to take on this gap in history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore the project is based around an excellent source within the archive collection, the Register of the Outdoor Blind for Edinburgh and Lothians from around 1903 to 1910.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This Register was used to document the lives of 1170 blind or partially-sighted individuals. The period in which it covers was a time before major development and support for sight-related disability was available and so often these individuals had to depend on minimum support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Register enables us to trace details about these individuals including: name; address; place of birth; age when sight was lost; cause of blindness; marital status; how employed; weekly earnings before losing sight and weekly income after; and date of death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This raw data, alongside records held within the National Records of Scotland (NRS) such as Census and Parish Registers, will be used in a research collaboration between partnerships of sighted and partially sighted volunteers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Between them the aim is to collect life stories about those individuals recorded in the Register and hopefully contribute to a better understanding about the lives of blind and partially-sighted people years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once life stories have been compiled, a series will be broadcast on the RNIB Insight Radio and other resources made available about the projects findings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This project has created an exciting opportunity for many different people to get involved at its different stages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As was one of the aims, certainly from my experience at the pre-research stage, the project has also provided an opportunity for those involved to develop skills useful within the heritage and information profession.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have only very recently finished my degree in Information Management and Preservation from the University of Glasgow. Working on a project such as this has not only allowed me to gain new practical skills, but it has also allowed me to tackle issues surrounding the best ways to make archival resources accessible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Register is a single bound volume in handwritten format, often difficult to read, and therefore had to be transcribed for the researchers to use for preservation needs as well as on account of the difficulties that interpreting handwriting can bring to those with limited experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a volunteer with LHSA I was asked to create an Access database and produce a set of guidelines for another volunteer, alongside some very helpful LHSA staff, to use in order to input the data from the Register.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Transcribing the information into an Access database was the most effective way to ensure that the data from the original document identified each individual in a coherent and organised format, and could best assist the needs of the researchers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h9gQ-gPuji4/VEp3jTA-P5I/AAAAAAAABPU/mVcPzRWagxM/s1600/Clair%2B002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h9gQ-gPuji4/VEp3jTA-P5I/AAAAAAAABPU/mVcPzRWagxM/s1600/Clair%2B002.jpg" height="320" width="304" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><o:p></o:p></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><em>Clair hard at work with the Register</em></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This has been a really interesting process because it has made me think about the role of the archivist and accessibility, dealing with issues such as avoiding personal interpretation of archival materials, whilst at the same time making a rich resource easier to use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was really important to get this balance right and to emphasise within the guidelines the importance of getting as accurate and as authentic transcription of the Register as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Working with the original document flared up many issues that were important to address to ensure that those transcribing the Register were consistent throughout the whole transcription.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, as the Register was filled in between around 1903 and 1910, different people have used different abbreviations to describe details, such as the cause of blindness or people's marital status or religious denomination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was important that every variation of the abbreviation was transcribed and accounted for. To solve the issue of what they all denoted, a key was created in order to provide meaning to each and every abbreviation that was used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The guidelines emphasised the ‘golden rule’ for transcribing – the importance of transcribing exactly what you see, rather than what you think it should say, so as to avoid personal interpretation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was often harder than it sounds especially when the handwriting was difficult to read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the key to ensuring this level of accuracy was to remind ourselves that each entry within the Register captures certain aspects of a person’s life and, therefore, each person deserves the same amount of attention to detail and accuracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These issues were also important for the researchers to be aware of in order to increase usability of the resource.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore a separate set of guidelines was produced for the researchers and I also had the pleasure of explaining these guidelines to the research group when I met them at the NRS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have thoroughly enjoyed being part of this project and the exciting prospect of helping to make such a rich resource more accessible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully once the research stage is complete many other different types of researchers as well as the general public will be able to learn about another interesting part in our society’s history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252349257788616207noreply@blogger.com