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"Admitted [to CRI] from prison. Assaulted his wife. Certified and transferred. Anxiety, fears that something will happen to him, ideas of reference and unworthiness in an individual of low intelligence. Discharged."

Relatives in survey: wife 26.55; children 26.53.

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"Occupation: Domestic servant. Rate-aided patient. Diagnosis: Melancholia. On admission patient was silent, but watched all which went on around her. She was resistive, would not feed herself and refused food. Would not dress herself. Attacked a nurse. Was impulsive at times."

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"Attended OPC. Depression. Intelligent [?] woman, unstable. Parents living apart. Father a heavy drinker. Mother violent and hysterical. Formerly typist and farm worker - many changes."

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"Admitted CR, discharged. Deluded, depressed, expecting a calamity, anxious. Parents dead. [Female informant] confirms - died about two years ago, lived with her sister [26.7]."

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"Admitted to CR. Duration 5 months on admission. Domestic service, fairly steady work record. Gave up factory work (munitions) because it was too much for her. Mother dead. Two brothers, a shepherd and a stoker. Previous nervous breakdown, no treatment. Diagnosis: Agitated depression with ideas of unworthiness and delusions that she is pregnant and has VD."

Scope and Contents "This woman looked like going off her head a few years ago, made suicidal attempt and nearly gassed herself. She is not so bad now but is still a queer old body, funny. Lives alone, no relatives known. [Male informant]: Brainless and simple, admitted to CRI after a suicidal attempt. Depression. Now OAP. No PA. Had been a woollen weaver. Dr confirms - has more than a neurosis, is quite daft, simple. She has had numerous jobs but they all upset her and she packed them up. Lives alone,...

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"Was in CRI with puerperal psychosis. Strong depressive colouring - hopeless, emotional, religious doubts, morbidly imaginative. Discharged herself too soon, but has remained well since."

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Questionnaires for persons in Area 29. Indexed.

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"Admitted CR - melancholia. Still rather queer and paranoid. One son killed in the war, one in South Africa. Home conditions very good."

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"Was in CR, diagnosis: Depression. Private patient. Now all right. Clean house, very comfortable, not overcrowded. Two children. [Female informant] - you can see there is something wrong with her. Rest of family OK."