Dementia

"This woman is similar to her daughter [28.85], a worrying type, falls out with the neighbours especially [28.168]. Husband a plasterer. Clean house, not overcrowded, not very harmonious."

Relatives in survey: Children 28.85, 28.220

"The king of neurotics, has been at all the specialists in the countryside. Recently thought there was something wrong with the veins under his tongue. Complains of things crawling up his back, of icy water running down it. Has some decalcification of his spine, which is almost transparent. Brings the house down with his complaints."

Relatives in survey: Wife 28.91, son 28.89

"This woman has been driven nearly off her head by her husband. She is a bit neurotic in her own right anyhow."

Relatives in survey: Husband 28.90, son 28.89

Questionnaires for persons in Area 29. Indexed.

Questionnaires for persons in Area 29. Indexed.

Questionnaires for persons in Area 29. Indexed.

"This old lady is senile, lays the table for her husband who died many years ago, cuts up loaves of bread for tea for non-existent farm hands, never takes her clothes off, gets mixed up between night and day. He lives alone in a largish house which is very dirty. Gets the OAP. The neighbours help her a littel and the house is her own."

Questionnaires for persons in Area 29. Indexed.

"Simple old man, lives with his sister. Harmless. Used to be a farmer? Nurse: Very polite and decent, works about the house, His sister has asthma. PC Just no very bright, simple, was a farmer, had a sort of wooden shack on the hill. Dull but fly - did not know how to ask for a ticket to Annan, waited at the booking office till he saw somebody whom he knew was going there and said "the same as him"."

"Had a very high blood pressure, was very nervous, threatened with CRI. Now all right. Husband a farmer. Her family are fine people. She was always excitable - used to be a maid. Well-to-do, comfortable. There was some cause for her illness - husband had been unfaithful with the hired girl."