"This child had a fit just before Christmas - was thought to have meningitis but didn't. Housing very good, clean, not overcrowded. Nurse says she was always a backward child, very slow to learn to speak. Dr confirms that she is subnormal. Her convulsive seizures at Christmas were probably hysterical - she had had too much excitement."

Relatives in survey: Father 43.11

"This woman is very fat and suffers from endocrine disturbance. Dr condsiders she is hysterical - frigid - "prim, randy, and a flirt". She married a ploughman as she was pregnant by him. Has the reputation of being unfaithful to her husband; ran around a good deal with Australians."

Relatives in survey: Mother 44.1

"This man had an accident when he fractured his skull. He was entitled to £1 a week compensation but compunded for a lump sum settlement which he frittered away. Now on PA. He is feckless, does no work, though minister thinks he could. Father, estate worker. Mother 66 or 67, feckless woman, " a bit of a madam". Housing: Dirty, 4 rooms for 3, they take in lodgers. [Male informant] this man had once a job as a nightwatchman but was unreliable and was dismissed. Gets a pension (PA) of 14/6."

"This girl lives at home with her parents, husband in the army. Her symptoms are similar to those of her sister - tendency to neurotic pains and complaints. Does not work, but was nominally a landgirl during the war. Described by Dr as a neurotic."

"This girl was seen at the clinic. Diagnosed as hysteric, not very serious. She complained of stomach pains etc. Father, an incomer, a litiginous paranoid, died recently of a brain tumour, had been in prison. Mother not very intelligent, believed in all father's lawsuits."

Relatives in survey: Mother 44.44, sister 44.46

"Hysterical but capable. Her uncle was said to have had a family by his daughter, all now practically imbecile. Another uncle committed suicide."

"This man, a farm worker, complains of terrible pain in the abdomen and dizzy turns, couldn't walk for it (the dizziness) but can ride a motor bike. Was investigated in hospital. Was ill two years ago with pains in the back and arms and made an awful noise about it. Raved that it was the dampness of his home, but the pains cleared up and he has forgotton the dampness. Lives with his old father, a cripple with arthritis, nice old chap, more guts than his son."

"This woman is very hysterical. Is pregnant for the first time after 11 years of marriage."

Relatives in survey: siblings 13.10

"Neurotic, goitre. Keeps boarders."

Questionnaires for persons in Area 8. Indexed.