Housing, Rural
Found in 177 Collections and/or Records:
45.19 Female, Married, 35-44 yrs, Suspected psychiatric illness, October 1946
"This woman is a rat - dresses herself up to the nines and leaves her children every evening. Always shifting, dirty. Children and 2 adults in 2 rooms. Inharmonious."
Relatives in survey: Children 45.18, 45.20
45.24 Female, Single, 45-54 yrs, Senile and Arterio-sclerotic psychoses, October 1946
"At times completely bats, hallucinations of faces at the foot of her bed. Had a goitre removed. Hypothyrodism? Has a high blood pressure. Dr thought she was going completely off her head. She worried about not being able to help at home. Lives with unmarried brother and sister, farmers."
16.161 Male, Married, 35-44 yrs, Dull and backward, February 1947
"A queer one, not quite right, working as a farm labourer. Drags a leg - imbecile? Parents dead. No PA. Awful house, 3 rooms. House unsuitable for adopting a child. Another sister was epileptic. Had an illegitimate child. Nurse confirms. Untruthful, a warrior. His brother is dull - a tractor driver, older than [patient name redacted]. Married with some children, OK."
Relatives in survey: sister 16.215
16.164 Female, Married, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, December 1946
"Very poor indeed but was absent from the control exam. No PA. Nurse confirms that she is dull. Has two children. Now living in a prefab, fairly clean. Husband a labourer. Not RC now. Dr confirms that family are dull, but doesn't know one from the other."
Relatives in survey: brother 16.224
16.223 Male, Married, 45-54 yrs, Psychopathic personality, Dull and backward, December 1946
"A famous poacher, has now steadied up. Used to be aggressive, once nearly killed a policeman. Nurse says he is dull. RC family. Steady work record. They have just moved to a prefab which they are keeping very well. Dirty before."
Relatives in survey: Children 16.226, 16.225, 16.222, 16.227, 16.224; wife 16.221
16.285 Female, Widowed, 25-34 yrs, High grade mental defective, January 1947
"This woman is defective. Now working on farm. She has two illegitimate children. Nurse says the whole family are dull. Clean house, two rooms, overcrowded. [Male informant] says this woman is very very dull, husband was killed, She has bad eyesight. No public assistance. Dr: Dull but a hard worker. Held jobs until she was interuppted by pregnancy."
Relatives in survey: 16.97, 16.92, 16.90, 16.96
16.292 Female, Married, 15-24 yrs, Anxiety neurosis, August 1944
"Attended OPC - anxiety state. Blitzed in [area] in 1940. Parents in [area name redacted] healthy and normal. Father used to drink heavily. The eldest of 13 - others said to be normal. Grandfather in MH after 1914/18 war. Husband a dock labourer, then in Pioneer Corps. Little girl of 3. Little furnished hut at 15/-."
16.296 Female, Married, 35-44 yrs, Anxiety neurosis, July 1947
"Seen at OP clinic - anxiety neurosis on depressive background. Long standing symptoms but unwilling to return to the clinic for treatment. Good house, rent £27."
18.104 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, June 1947
"IQ 72. [Male informant] says she is dull but all there, now working in a factory. Father was a cattleman. They were put out of their cottage and are now all living in one room, dirty."
Sibling 18.103
28.124 Male, Married, 45-54 yrs, Hysteria, October 1946
"This man has weird and wonderful symptoms, is always complaining of something, never out of Dr's surgery. A mill worker. Not working at present. Evacuees. Housing overcrowded, 2 rooms for 6, not very clean."
Relatives in survey: Children 28.211, 28.213