Antisocial Personality Disorder

Scope and Contents '[Female informant] describes her as a bad bitch. PAO confirms: Hypochondrial and nervy. No PA. Nurse confirms, fond of life and gallivanting, keen on money, worldly. Keeps a fairly clean house. PC confirms. Difficult, quarrelsome and a mischief maker. Spends most of her time on the buses. Children dirty and neglected, are allowed to stay out late. Minister: excitable. They live in a careless fashion, and he hopes they will leave. Husband is nice. Children are too...

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'Notorious in the district because of her immoral behaviour. Was going with an old man. Mother worked in munitions "wears a fur coat and has a young man". Father died. Nurse says she has always been a problem. Difficult at school. Used to lock herself in a room with [other children], thought to have taught them bad habits, trailed them about the roads.'

Relatives in survey: Sibling 24.5

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'Unsatisfactory character, has a reputation for petty thieving, went out a lot dancing and drinking with soldiers. Neglected her children. Father basketmaker. Mother dead, TB. Two rooms fairly clean. She has been a maid for two years and did not steal. Husband killed in war, has married again. Nurse confirms, plausible, generous, quite considerate. Swears. Not married yet. PAO confirms, bad tempered, bad type. No PA.'

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'[Male informant] says this man is queer. A farmer, was in a very poor way before the war, now well off. Wants to divorce his wife and marry his housekeeper. He was very stingy and unsympathetic about his wife's illness, would not allow her any pocket money etc. Home conditions: OK. Minister says there is something very much wrong with him. Has a terrific temper.'

Relatives in survey: Wife 24.76

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'Alcoholic, often pretty bad. Single, lives in the bothy, farm labourer. Nurse says he is a lunatic when drunk. No army service. Has body lice. Father killed on railway. Mother dead? Brought up by grandmother who spoilt him. Minister: A crazy fool, was in trouble at a farm for stealing.'

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"Dr considers this woman neurotic. She was a cleaner. Not very strong, has skin trouble on her leg which makes her depressed. Children all very bright. Family relationships harmonious."

Relatives in survey: Sister 29.103

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"This woman is always imagining she is ill; a nice enough woman but quarrels with her daughter. She is said to be separated and living with a younger man. Minister thinks there is something vaguely unsatisfactory about this family. The children are not very bright, truant a lot. Family life definitely inharmonious and disturbed."

Relatives in survey: Children 25.39, 25.40, 25.41, 25.42

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'This girl is said to have a bad moral character. She has a police record [for theft]. She has two illegitimate children. She is working in munitions. She often used to sleep out, which worried her mother very much. Mother about 55, a decent respectable woman, normal. Father, dead.'

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'This boy was a holy terror at school. He is described as a terrible boy to drink and fight with a filthy tongue. Recently dismissed from farm for being unsatisfactory. Has a police record for theft.'

Relatives in survey: sister 25.31

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"This woman is described as "awfu' dirty", bad-tempered and a loose liver; goes to a lot of dances with soldiers. Big, blousy woman. She was in trouble with the RSSPCC for leaving her children unattended, but was able to make good her case."

Relatives in survey: Children 25.17, 25.18, 25.19, niece 2.33