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'This girl is dull (Dr). [Female informant] says very dull but pleasant, asthmatic. In farm service.'

Relatives in survey: 20.4, 20.5

Scope and Contents 'This man has been in CRI several times. Diagnosis "melancholia". Treatment for pernicious anaemia has improved his symptoms. Physcially healthy, has worked as a ploughman. Appears to have had frequent depressions when at home - used to lie in bed, would not work. Has a strong religious streak. Still having treatment by injection for anaemia. He heard that his nephew had been killed in action - this preciptitated a depression; it did not last very long but he was violent and "outrageous" for...

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'This man suffers from muscular atrophy but Dr says his symptoms are half hysterical. Luminal t.i.d. Was an engineer. Incomer. Very decent people - he got a DCM in the last war. Has a disability pension and NHI - really a last war casualty. Was wounded several times. "A poor looking crater". Family life harmonious.'

Relatives in survey: Wife 25.4

Includes correspondence with Ministry of Pensions.

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"Spends six months of every year in bed. Has asthma. Describes symptoms of angina but at the wrong time. Chronic invalid. Opens his shop three times a week for two house. No one know how he makes a living. Cannot walk to the shop, always goes by car though it is a very short distance. Wife living. [Male informant] - was severely gassed in the last war. Home conditions comfortable, peaceful."

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"Very bad neurosis, has always been highly strung and nervous. Doctors excited her too much to be sent for; has mucous colitis. Has a cancer phocia. [Male informant] a poor soul, an ailing body, a bit mental."

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"This woman suffers from asthma, her breathing is always very laboured, gets very depressed about it. She is a widow, lives alone, has no family. Her house is too big for her and she is unable to look after it or herself properly, but the neighbours help. She has tried to have people to stay with her but does not get on well with them. Dr says this woman is senile. She has had carcinoma and now has a bad heart. Is lonely and very sorry for herself."

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"This girl is a cook. She is deformed and stooped with thin arms, imagines she can play the organ, which she can't, thinks she can do things better than anyone else. Nice girl to talk to, sings in a choir. [Female informant] says this is a peculiar but decent wee soul; bright, musical, very religious. Quite a capable housekeeper."

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"This old lady is peculiar, a hermit, lives alone with a lodger as queer as herself. Very fond of a wee drop. Very bad with rheumatism and can hardly get about. No relations known. Dirty house, 2 rooms for 2, nobody else would live in it. PAO: pickled - will never die, alert mentally but very old. Widow's pension and supplement. Dr - senile, chronic tippler."

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"IQ of 73. A little dull but good with her hands. Now a maid on a farm."

Father: 32.8

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"Queer, deformed, can't work, but does a bit of fishing. At present convalescent owing to a breakdown in health. Lives alone, single. Father and mother dead. [Male informant] should not be living alone, definitely mental. Has £100 a year plus NHI. Keeps hens. Relatives help. Nurse confirms, defective. Fairly clean."