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"Admitted to CR with puerperal depression. Clean house, decent folk."

Relatives in survey: mother 45.60

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"IQ 79, not too bad, just backward. Mother was lazy and dirty, died of puerperal sepsis. They were looked after by a neighbour, not very well. Father a labourer, used to drink heavily, cleared off and left them. Grandparents wanted to put them in a home because they were so badly treated. Nurse says the stepmother has improved the family."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 16.234, 16.233, 16.235; father 16.232

Scope and Contents "Diagnosis: Melancholia. Patient was admitted, dull and depressed. Resistive at times, also impulsive and refused food. Sensitive, good housewife, worrying type. She seemed quite well until the second day of puerperium. Then she seemed depressed and worried. This was followed by a kind of stupor during which she became impulsive, getting out of bed etc. She has always been a worrier and has taken life very seriously. The death of one of her children depressed her for quite a little and the...

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"This woman has suffered from Puerperal psychosis - melancholia - for over 2 years. She is though to have had E.C.T. in Morningside. Nobody knows much about her as efforts have been made to hush up the whole thing. She is said to be a clever woman."

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Questionnaires for persons in Area 37. Indexed.