"In D section, IQ 74. Not interested in anything. Has had various jobs since leaving school, was in a factory, made an attempt at domestic service. Awful household. Probably illegitimate, lived with her aunt who got involved with an Newfoundler. Has had a child too, wanders about, looks an awful trollope. LE: Unsteady work record, a little rat. Nurse - is pregnant again."

"Dr says he is neurotic. Was an engineer, then a caretaker. Present work? One child. LE: A fitter, steady record recently. Good type but not strong, very intelligent."

Relatives in survey: Wife 28.163

"This man is anything but bright, doesn't do anything but wheel a barrow about at the mill, is weak mentally. Will do a message for anybody for 2d a time. PAO confirms: there is a simple softness about him. Looks a lot older than he is."

Relatives in survey: wife 28.179, son 28.181

"This man is stone deaf, simple, works for a coal merchant. PAO confirms: Nice, grand worker, but simple. Dr confirms that he is simple, village idiot type but not so bad. LE: steady worker. [Male informant]: nice lad, plays the fiddle. Sells coal during the week. Did fairly well at school, very willing. Absent from intelligence test."

Relatives in survey: sibling 28.184, mother 28.185

"This woman attended the OP clinic and was admitted to CR as a private patient. Obsessional state on the basis of a recurrent depression. Three previous attacks. Duration of present attack 9 months. Patient earns £4 a week in the woollen mill. They seem to be decent people."

"This woman is not very bright, house like a pigstye. Not bright, none of them are, house very dirty - but then she works all the time in the mills. Husband a mill worker too."

Relatives in survey: husband 28.196 daughter 28.194, siblings 28.48, 28.49, nephew 28.53

"This woman has already had a breakdown. She lives alone, keeps herself aloof, slinks past you when she sees you. She does a little dressmaking. Dr: Has been in CRI. No insurance company would take her BP. Mentally dull, hallucinated on occasions, persecuted, everybody has a down on her. Home circumstances probably good - she is a char."

"This man, a porter, is "no' altogether correct", probably just dull."

"In CR. Acute Mania. Duration one week. Was a wool pattern weaver. Mother over 50. Father a labourer, simple. [Male informant] says she is all right now, married. No PA since 1940 other than treatment."

Relatives in survey: father 28.216

"In CRI [two years ago], rate-aided - sudden excitement and confusion about tonsillectomy, hearing people speaking to her, thinking she is pregnant etc. Dep. and tired for about a year before that. Was a wool mill worker, before that a factory worker (munitions). Father, labourer, mother died in Garlands. Has kept house for her uncles for some years. PAO does not know where she is now. Was well and working."