George S. Stirling (Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Administrator)

Material comprises: 1) 'Three Months Tour of Danish and Swedish Psychiatry', 109 page document detailing Dr G. S. Stirling's study tour of hospitals and clinics, with a description and notes on each institution visited, September to November 1957 2) 'Apomorphine Treatment for Alcoholism', instruction sheet as how to administer and monitor the treatment, May 1955 3) 'Intensive Treatment of Long Stay Patients', ten page paper given to the Royal College of Psychiatrists AGM, 1970 4) 'A Psychiatrist's Viewpoint on Mental Hospital Admission', reprinted article published in From the Postgraduate Centres, May 1972 (the paper was originally presented as a lecture at the Western Region Postgraduate Medical Centre by Dr G. S. Stirling) 5) 'Rehabilitation', eight page paper by Dr G. S. Stirling concerning Crichton Royal Hospital, 1 March 1973 6) 'Rehabilitation', seven page paper by Dr G. S. Stirling concerning Crichton Royal Hospital, marked 'confidential', with monthly hospital admission figures for 1972 and 1973, 24 August 1973 7) 'Pimozide as a replacement for maintenance therapy in chronic schizophrenics', reprinted article by Dr G. S. Stirling from Current Medical Research and Opinion, Vol. 6. No. 5, 1979 8) Notes on Solway Industrial Unit, giving information about the development of the unit and the work carried out there, October 1981 9) 'Depression', three page paper by Dr G. S. Stirling concerning the history of treatment, types of depression, diagnosis, causation, management and drug therapy, 15 April 1986 10) 'Haloperidol Decanoate v. Fluphenazine Decanoate as Maintenance Therapy in Chronic Schizophrenic In-patients' by J. P. McKane, A. D. T. Robinson, D. H. Wiles, R. G. McCreadie and G. S. Stirling; four page article, with annotations, reprinted from British Journal of Psychiatry (1987), 150

1955-1987

1 folder

Dr George Stirling was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist in 1952 and became Medical Administrator in 1979, retiring in 1987. He was the longest serving Psychiatrist at Crichton Royal Hospital having served 35 years.

Staff publications, DGH1/6/18; Photographic Material, DGH1/8

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The papers are available at Dumfries and Galloway Archives subject to conditions of UK Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2012. Subject to these restrictions, this material is being digitised by the University of Glasgow as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.

Material donated in 2007 to former Health Board Archivist.