As a recently retired Social Worker I know that those records would be very hard to access.I am not sure that a diagnosis from the 1920s or 1930s would tell you much either. There are handicapping conditions that surely existed then that would not be as problematical today.Autism and Asperger's Syndrome spring to mind.Children who were brain damaged at birth or who became handicapped as a result of measles or other communicable diseases could have been "committed" or "placed" there. Other developmentally disabled were often "sacrificed" to the greater good of a large, impoverished family. Some clues can be gotten by looking at the family as it existed then and after. Kathleen Carrow Ingram