Child Guidance Clinic Records

Volumes relating to Child Guidance Clinics held at Dumfries and Galloway Infirmary, Stranraer Health Centre and Castle Douglas. Information contained includes patient name, address, date of birth or age, name of school, date of attendance (DGH1/5/24/1/2 and DGH1/5/24/1/3) and the name of the professional who referred them to the clinic. In some cases there are notes relating to admission and discharge dates for Ladyfield or Hannahfield in the Department of Child Psychiatry, Crichton Royal Hospital. DGH1/5/24/2/1 also records, in some cases, a description of the reason for attending the clinic and the date of follow up appointments. Volumes are indexed at front.

1946-1968

3 volumes

Department of Child and Family Psychiatry, DGH1/3/6; Department of Child Psychiatry Patient Records, DGH1/5/23; Personal papers of Edgar McCoy, DGH1/6/16/8.

Enquiries for reproduction for commercial purposes should be directed to the Archivist, Dumfries and Galloway Archives and Local Studies

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.