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"This boy is very backward, is only fit for Primary 1. He can read a little. Has a nice nature. Poor at arithmetic. I.Q. 70-. Housing: five rooms, not overcrowded, not very clean but clean at school. There has been trouble about non-attendance. Dr. thinks this lad hasn't had a chance through living so far from school. Nurse confirms this boy, but says the family are normal."

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"This man is an imbecile, very uncouth looking, big head, can't talk properly, has never been able to work. Parents dead, lives with his sister. P.A.O. confirms - village idiot type. No P.A. Two rooms for 2, clean. No sanitation."

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"This woman is peculiar, silly and unreasonable - gave Dr. a flighting recently. Always making trouble. Has the reputation of being immoral with bus drivers. Nurse does not know much about this woman, except that she is very dirty and tells a lot of lies. 4 roomed house."

Son in study (15.24).

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"This man is very bad tempered to his workmen, who never stay with him. Very strict, elder in the kirk, no alcohol. They keep their byres cleaner than their house. Prosperous. This man has a terrible temper - takes it out on his wife and animals - kicks them. Can be very nice, or a coarse uncouth brute. House passably clean, family life miserable. No. P.A."

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"Mental age 10 years. Confusion while in hospital. Two roomed farm cottage, farily clean, harmonious. This man has been visited periodically unde the After Care scheme. He is very shut in and does not make friends easily. Goes to pictures once a week. Has had several changes of job in two years. Seen by P.S.W."

Mother (15.62) in study.

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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.

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"She has an adopted son. She lives in a hovel and in another century would have been called a witch. Dr. confirms - senile. Adopted son in the Navy, nice lad. Nurse confirms - this woman is suffering from senile decay. The nurse who looks after her is also senile. Big house, quite clean, harmonious. They do the housework themselves."

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"This man is defective and alcoholic; able to work as a farm hand. May yet end in C.R. Home conditions: he lives with his mother and brother. Dr. says this man is O.K. so far as he knows. Big farm house, not overcrowded, clean."

Scope and Contents "This woman used to be known as a prostitute. She is now married to a timber foreman and is thought to be rooking him. They have awful rows. Housing, two rooms for 3, inharmonious, clean. Nurse says this woman is all right now, takes music and riding lessons. Had a boy before marriage. Has too much to say for herself. Home dirty. P.C. says this woman is highly strung - says so herself - [has] a very high pitched voice. At present having trouble with another lady about coupons. He...