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Scope and Contents "Rate-aided patient. Was a joiner. Informants - wife and daughter. "Has had epileptic fits for the last twenty years; supposed to be due to his bad heart; no warning; alwys gives a cry; has often hurt himself. In recent years he has been very irritable; memory has been getting poor: seems to be living in the past: has been getting aggressive for the last year: has been having a fit or two a month. Dr prescribed Luminal a few years ago. Patient has been taking 1 gr. b.d."."PC...

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'This man is "definitely and visibly mental", is 40+ but looks 16, small and undersized. He is illegitimate. He lives with a farmer's widow and does a little work on the farm. Dr says this man is epileptic. His father is half-brother of 19.25.'

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"This man is epileptic. He is able to work on the farm. Lives at home."

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"This man, a roadman, was rejected for the army for epilepsy. Now a farm worker. House clean, not overcrowded."

Wife in study (15.52).

Scope and Contents 'Mother alive and well. Father died of heart failure. Mentally peculiar? Occupation: Farm worker. Diagnosis: Dementia "Originally apparently a dementia praecox. She has in the last few years developed Epilepsy". Admitted to CRI. Rate-aided patient.'One day, about two years ago prior to admission, pt. had been to church and developed severe headache when she lay in bed screaming. She was very violent, said she was going to die. Since then she has been subject to outbursts of...

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"Petit mal - has "turns" every other week. Works as a ditcher and drainer. Dr thinks he is OK mentally. Nurse thinks they are a quiet, respectable family."

Relatives in survey: son 35.11

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"Dull and backward boy, had an epileptic fit at school when headmaster present. Now working on a farm. Father a dairyman. Very good worker. Mother had goitre. 40+. Bad home conditions, condemned house. [Male informant] says they are not bright. Father was recently sacked because of his son took out a reaper and ran it into the hedge. Sister [39.24] had glandular TB."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 39.24, 39.25, 39.26

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"He is an epileptic or at least "subject to fits of an epileptic character". Not defective. Now in merchant navy. His mother is a bedswerver, carries on with other men, doesn't get on with her husband and has wanted to leave him in the past. A lot of family quarrelling."

Relatives in survey: Mother 44.59 aunt 44.36

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"This girl is a fairly severe epileptic, is not well enough to work at present. Used to be a domestic servant."

Relatives in survey: Mother 44.44, sister 44.46

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"Epileptic. Single, lives with his parents and works on a smallholding. No public assistance. sister, dead, who had an imbecile child which died. Mother, dead, was peculiar - had all her sons to different men."

Relatives in survey: siblings 16.126, 16.129