Dementia

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'Has had 3 cerebral haemorrhages. Definitely impaired mentally. Parents dead. Brother was in CRI. Three sons.'

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"This woman is said to be soft and a simpleton. Dr says she is very dressy and peculiar, getting deaf, sex appeal ++. Bats. She has had 17 children of whom 8 or 9 survive."

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Questionnaires for persons in Area 23. Indexed.

Scope and Contents Occupation: Retired Postal worker. Previously in CR. Rate-aided patient.'After retiring became more irritable - had a garden but not sufficiently interested. Would not finish a job. Began to have the "turns". Phases lasting and hour to a day when his eyes are staring and face pale, when he threatens violence and his language becomes very abusive. He seems to remember something of them but is not willing to talk about them. Used to come every few months. Have come for 6 months....

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'Admitted CR. Rate-aided. Arteriosclerotic dementia. A retired salesman. Parents dead. Married, wife alive. Living conditions probably good - wife seen by PSW. [Male informant] says this man died.'

Scope and Contents 'Mother alive and well. Father died of heart failure. Mentally peculiar? Occupation: Farm worker. Diagnosis: Dementia "Originally apparently a dementia praecox. She has in the last few years developed Epilepsy". Admitted to CRI. Rate-aided patient.'One day, about two years ago prior to admission, pt. had been to church and developed severe headache when she lay in bed screaming. She was very violent, said she was going to die. Since then she has been subject to outbursts of...

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'Occupation: House duties. Diagnosis: Senile Dementia, old manic depressive element. Admitted to CRI. Wanders about the house from room to room in an undressed fashion. She is talkative but irrational. She is quite disorientated as to place and time. She has not idea what day it is, what year it is and she says she hears voices which command her to go from place to place. She imagines that her food is poisoned. She was always flighty. Rate-aided patient. Illegitimate.'

Scope and Contents 'This woman was admitted to CRI and discharged. Diagnosis: Organic dementia. She was re-admitted as a private patient. Discharged into care of her brother in law. Parents dead. Four surviving children, three of them had twin siblings who died. She is separated from her husband on account of her mental illness. Home conditions: apparently good, not overcrowded. [Son] is easily led. [Daughter] is delicate and anaemic. Nurse says that only the last pregnancy was a twin, the others were all...

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'Occupation: Formerly housewife. (husband deceased, was an engineer but they were separated). Private patient. Admitted to CRI, discharged (mental condition unchanged). Diagnosis: Senile Dementia.'

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'This old woman is said to have had a nervous breakdown.'

Relatives in survey: 24.3