Scope and Contents "This woman is described as very high strung, flies into tempers with everybody, particularly her daughter. Nags a lot. Family life unhappy owing to friction with her daughter. This woman is probably coming to the Clinic - menopausal depression - suspicious. PC agrees. This woman has funny ideas. She used to live on a remote farm which she liked very much. She turned against it after her son died and made her husband leave it - they have been in several houses since but she has never...

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"Diagnosis: Melancholia (probably menopausal - symptons were voices, delusions of poison, later apathetic and negativistic - had to be tube fed.) Had been a laundry worker. One illegitimate son. Housing: patient now lives with brother, fairly clean, not over-crowded. "Little dungeon of a place". Patient is still strange in manner. Nurse confirms - this woman is now a heart case. Dr. confirms - very bad heart, half-bats."

Brother (15.64) in study.

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"Definitely senile, has gallstones too, practically bedridden. Widow. Married daughter looks after her. Another daughter had a mental breakdown at the menopause, thought she was being poisoned by Stilboestrol. Now well."

Son 18.57

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'Sergeant says that she seems very excitable and highly strung - he thinks it is the change of life. Keeps house for her father, a very old man. They had had a young man staying with them as a lodger and she had taken money from her father to give to him.'

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'Attended OPC. Diagnosis - Anxiety state. History of throbbing in the head, buzzing in the ears and palpitations for the past 12 years. Neurotic prolongations of the symptoms of menopause. Father and mother dead. Mother married again, patient keeps house for her stepfather. Very circumscribed existence.'

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"This woman is very hysterical, always complaining about herself though there is not much wrong with her. Menopausal."

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"A menopausal case with palpitations, funny feelings. Parents dead. Husband a coal merchant. Nurse: Very highly strung and hysterical. Her husband and she look through you when they meet you on the road. [Male informant] does not think she is neurotic, she is a cheery, happy-go-lucky sort. Husband works in a mill, well doing folk."

Relatives in survey: sibling 28.222

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"For the last 6 months this woman has been feeling absolutely done. Has slight vaginitis. Dr thinks she is menopausal and neurotic. Recommended Stilboestrol. [Male informant] confirms that she is easily depressed, impressionable. Very nice family, pleasant people. Nurse - clean house, comfortable, delicate woman. Children grown up, all very pretty, rather gay."

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"This woman is menopausal. Her husband left to take a job in Glasgow and she did not like the change, just sat and wept and wept, would not go out or talk to anybody. Really depressed. Husband had to give up job and return. Is now better but would easily become a CR case."

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"This woman was seen at the clinic and diagnosed as climacteric neurosis. History of ill health for years - chronic dysentery, sore back, antrum, appendicectomy. Husband suffers from depression. [male informant] thinks that she has had cancer. She is a very hard working woman - husband does not show her much consideration. There are rumours that he has other lady friends, does not know about depression."

Relatives in survey: 44.49