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A collection of newspaper and magazine cuttings covering issues relating to the LGBTQ+ community.

Articles cover local, national and international news, however Scottish publications have the strongest representation with Edinburgh and Glasgow based publications being a specific strength within this sub-series.

Scope and Contents "Very suspicious-minded, failing, past his prime. Formerly a very extraverted typed, very outspoken, did not go down with everybody. Very decent. [Brother] suicided 12 or 13 years ago. [Brother] died in CR, senility. Brother was father of [3.30] who shot the girl who jilted him. [Son] committed suicide aged 32. [Other son] committed suicide. [Two married daughters], ok. [Two sons], ok. Good living conditions, prosperous, not overcrowded, very decent people."Relatives in survey:...

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"Was definitely queer. Was a domestic servant, set her room on fire, threatened suicide, ran away with a soldier, then joined the ATS. Has outgrown it and is now all right."

Relatives in survey: Sister 7.25

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"Admitted to CRI, discharged - epilepsy. A ploughman, single - had had a row with his employer which led to his dismissal. Dr says he threatened suicide - does not know where he is now."

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"Private patient. Obligant is brother. Principal Cause - heredity. Diagnosis - Melancholia. Onset of symptoms - 1941? Two maternal uncles committed suicide, ? alcoholism. Patient's brother was in CRI. Patient is one of a family of five. One sister died at 21 or 22 years, ? brain abscess. Love affair said to be possible cause. Patient is the eldest of the family. Patient never had employment."

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"This woman committed suicide. Nurse thinks she must have been depressed but her husband hadn't noticed it. One child. Only been in the district since November. Thought to have money worries - rent of furnished rooms was £3.10/-. From nurse. has only heard rumours - that she was very lonely, and also that she was top dog in the house."

Scope and Contents "Simple, a wee bit weak mentally, able to work. Lives with her parents and her three illegitimate children. Nurse confirms she is soft; worked in the factory canteen during the war, now at home. Parents about 70, are peculiar and feeble-minded people, a low-grade family. One sister has an illegitimate child. One sister married, has a child [16.307]. Attempted suicide with aspirins 15 years ago when mother turned her out. Good worker, just. Fairly clean, not overcrowded. Inharmonious....

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"Has been twice in Garlands - maniacal. At home just now. Not fit to work. Mother died two years ago, was senile and difficult. Father dead. Sister, peculiar but all right, keeps house. Clean house, not overcrowded. [Male informant] confirms that this woman is definitely peculiar, but he has only seen her once. Made a suicidal attempt 15 or 16 years ago. Her sister is all right, he thinks, but very religious."

Includes correspondence from Westmorland Mental Hospital.

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"When Dr called to see patient she was lying in a pool of blood caused by wounds in a suicidal attempt."

Scope and Contents "This woman looked like going off her head a few years ago, made suicidal attempt and nearly gassed herself. She is not so bad now but is still a queer old body, funny. Lives alone, no relatives known. [Male informant]: Brainless and simple, admitted to CRI after a suicidal attempt. Depression. Now OAP. No PA. Had been a woollen weaver. Dr confirms - has more than a neurosis, is quite daft, simple. She has had numerous jobs but they all upset her and she packed them up. Lives alone,...