Scope and Contents "This boy suffers from asthma; he has very bad tonsils, which ought to be removed but his grandmother won't permit it. He is getting duller - thought to be due to his tonsils. He has missed a lot of schooling with ill-health. Illegitimate. Not a nervous child. Has also discharing ears. Mother 30-40. Her mother would not let her marry [patient's] father. A bit soft. Laundry worker. Grandmother, a difficult old woman, up against authority - the school and the school doctors are always...

Scope and Contents "This child has had chorea, has very bad sight, blind in one eye. Very bad at arithmetic. Considered backward (through physical handicap?). Came as an evacuee but the rest of the family joined her and now have got a house. Mother, aged 33 a throughither type, no discipline. Housing: not bad. Plenty of room but mother and 2 children share a bed. Nurse confirms. Has a cataract. Healthy rosy child, rather shy. Mother has decided not to return to the father as he has a temper and is...

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Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.

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"This boy is backward, goes about eternally asking questions, needs a clout on the head to reshuffle his ideas. Does not look backward. Housing conditions excellent, harmonious."

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"This man is soft and simple, has a bad heart, does nothing, is very dirty. Has always been on P.A. Parents dead. He lives with his brother, a labourer. Two rooms, dirty and rough. Harmonious so far as known."

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"This woman has desseminated sclerosis and glaucoma, can't walk. Duration 4 years. Can hardly walk at all. Well-to-do. Dr. confirms - double glaucoma. Four rooms, clean, family relationships indifferent."

Brother in study.

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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.

Scope and Contents "This woman, a retired nurse, lives alone. She thinks that an imaginary man marks her windows, has duplicated keys to her drawers, is always writing to the Police about this. Symptoms for many years. No relations known. Clean house, can look after herself. No. P.A. - has pensions. Dr. confirms. Is developing queerly. Well-connected, people were farmers. No relatives left now. Can look after herself. Nurse confirms. She can't now look after herself properly- suffers from heart and...

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"This woman, a widow, used to drink a bit. Nurse confirms that she is a bit peculiar. Very dirty, has a bad heart. Lives alone. Two rooms, dirty."

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"IQ 70, defective and deformed, will never be able to work. Illegitimate, lives with his uncle and mother. Father very defective looking. Only very little at school, started late. Nice lad. Dr confirms: Spastic birth paralysis, has epileptic fits. They are afraid he might assault people. Should be in an institution. Nurse says he is a post-encephalitic."

Relatives in survey: mother 16.24