Showing Records: 41 - 50 of 737
21.78 Female, Married, 45-54 yrs, High grade mental defective, Psychopathic personality, November 1946
"Definitely off, illiterate, poor type. [Male informant] She is the cause of the all the trouble, a big blousy bitch, smoking all the time. Never feeds her children properly. Queer and illiterate."
Husband: 21.79 children: 21.76, 21.77, 21.80
23.19 Female, Married, 45-54 yrs, Hysteria, June 1946
"This woman is rather hysterical and nervy, was very nervous during the war, draws attention to herself at meetings, has a very shrill artificial laugh which is always trilling out. Rather affected. Wears peculiar arty clothes and has a sort of 1920 hair do. Talked a lot of rubbish during the war - her husband had an awful time with her. Husband has been an excellent informant but is a bit of an old wife, fussy, looks like an indignant rabbit."
23.49 Female, Married, 45-54 yrs, Psychopathic personality, June 1946
"This woman is very dull, ugly, oversexed, inclined to prostitution, bad-tempered. Nurse confirms - she makes up terrifically and chases off to Dumfries after men."
26.68, Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Maladjusted child, November 1946
"Very quiet, brow-beaten by his father, never opened his mouth, terrified. Backward, found the A class too difficult but did better in the B class. Father created about this and removed him - wanted him to be a doctor. The boy signed his own reports. Dr - all right but hudden-doon."
Relatives in survey: Father 26.67
26.85, Female, Married, 35-44 yrs, High grade mental defective, Psychopathic personality, December 1946
"No foresight, only so-so, children are ill-fed and under nourished looking, badly clad, but she goes about in a fur coat. [Male informant] confirms that she is immoral, smokes ++, uses bad language. Husband, decent, has no control over her. They were evicted because they did not pay the rent."
Relatives in survey: Children 26.83, 26.82, 26.87, 26.81, 26.86, 26.84
26.95, Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Maladjusted child, May 1947
"This boy was a very bad attender. [Male informant] says he was lazy and sleekit, bright enough but unpleasant. He has been working at a sawmill since he left school but is now looking for a better job - would like to be a joiner or work at the Glasgow shipyards."
Relatives in survey: Father 26.11.
28.13 Female, Separated or divorced, 35-44 yrs, Psychopathic personality, July 1946
"Promiscuous and immoral. Feckless, but can look nice. Mother dead. Sergt. - a proper gyp, a dead wrong one. No PA, was offered indoor relief but refused it. Known to RSSPCC. Nurse: A problem woman, dirty, soft and MD. Labour exchange - working as a char, a bad lot."
Relatives in survey: children 28.14, 28.15
28.26 Female, Married, 35-44 yrs, Hysteria, September 1946
"Said to have "insanity of pregnancy" the last time she was pregnant. Dr was called to see her - said she hadn't. She is an hysterical, highly emotional woman, takes turns of shrieking, a bitch. Family life inharmonious at least, husband knocks her about. Admitted to CRI and discharged. No diagnosis was given but was depressed, hypochondrial, feared she was going insane, hysterical and hostile to her husband. Agitated."
Relatives in survey: Husband 28.25
28.28 Male, Married, 35-44 yrs, Suspected psychiatric illness, October 1946
"Doubtful case - OK but not just normal so far as meeting him goes, dour, quiet moody fellow, never at home. Illegitimate."
Relatives in survey: Mother 28.35