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"Diagnosis: Post peural depression. Patient had a child which died when 7 1/2 months old - 'congenital heart trouble'. Patient was a good mother and was very upset about this. Became pregnant again - normal confinement. Two days after the birth she became mentally ill, lost weight and became very depressed. Hearing voices. Admitted to CR, confused and agitated, and only dily aware of her surroundings."

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"Flighty and neurotic, did not pay her doctor's bill, always expressed what she felt very vividly, made a great carry on when she had a baby. Family always on the move. Husband a farm worker."

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"Admitted to CRI with involutional melancholia with paranoid features. Had a breakdown during a pregnancy precipitated by death of child from blood-poisoning. House fairly clean. Minster syas she had no spirit or intelligence."

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"This woman is a queer kind of crater, anything but bright, always in a terrible pickle. Nurses think she is a bit simple. Five children. Nurse confirms that she is in an awful state of nerves. Children fairly good, quite nice. Mother not very strong - several stillbirths. Dr confirms - she is a big stout, dull woman, very scared of having another pregnancy, hysterical."

Relatives in survey: Husband 42.6; sister

Scope and Contents "Diagnosis: Epileptic Psychosis complicationg pregnancy. Dr reports that she is a mental defective and that she has suffered from epilepsy from the age of 15. Her epilepsy seems to be adequately controlled on her present dosage of Epanutin and she now has one petit mal seizure a week and one major seizure every two or three months. It would be advisable for her to come into hospital in view of her pending confinement and the best solution would be for her to be admitted to CR as a rate aided...

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"Scamp as a boy but he has settled down. Dr thinks he is simple - he believed that his wife had carried the baby for 14 months."

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"Said to have "insanity of pregnancy" the last time she was pregnant. Dr was called to see her - said she hadn't. She is an hysterical, highly emotional woman, takes turns of shrieking, a bitch. Family life inharmonious at least, husband knocks her about. Admitted to CRI and discharged. No diagnosis was given but was depressed, hypochondrial, feared she was going insane, hysterical and hostile to her husband. Agitated."

Relatives in survey: Husband 28.25

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"Admitted to CRI diagnosis - Melancholia. Husband a mill worker, dead. A niece [28.26] was treated for depression during pregnancy.2

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"Definitely queer in the head, was very hysterical during her first pregnancy but all right at the confinement. Is convinced she has a prolapse, always complaining of a dragging feeling, but is all right. Husband abroad in the army. Dr - lives alone with her children, nice looking girl."

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"All sorts of weird and wonderful symptoms. Afraid she was pregnant when aged about 46. Doctor had an Ascheim-Zondek done to reassure her. Queer type, a mill worker. Lives alone, no PA."