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'Admitted to CR from clinic. Diagnosis - Paraphrenic depression. Onset 6 months ago.'

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'IQ 70 minus. Definitely dull. Now working on a farm. Is very small for his age. Family have moved about a lot. Known to sanitary inspector.'

Relatives in survey: Parents 20.39, 20.40

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'Just left school. Presented unusual picture of psychotic condition with paranoid ideas. Said to have gone "mental" since her brother died.'

Relatives in survey: Siblings 20.65, 20.66, mother 20.62, father 20.63

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'Screwy, works on a farm. Simple, definitely soft, everybody makes fun of him. Single, has a housekeeper. Parents dead. 5 siblings, 2 dead. He lived alone for a long time, now has a housekeeper, quite well looked after.'

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"This woman is "no righ", solitary, never washes, very lazy. She used to live with her brother who died of cerebral thrombosis. She used to take boarded out children. Home conditions filthy. "A heck of a funny woman" Minister confirms "just a bit off". She used to have a sister, very superior woman, now dead. She used to have delusions that she was going to get married."

Scope and Contents "This man has been living at a farm for several months. He wanders about, dances the Highland Fling, thought the school children had stolen his books and held up the school mistress one night demanding them. She is afraid he might attack the children. People are afraid of him. He was discharged [from job] for interfering with the female staff. He wanders about the country frightening women; has made a nuisance of hiimself at the Sanitorium. Has a brother, a waster. Draws NH benefit. There...

Scope and Contents "This old lady lives alone, is very eccentric, keeps about 30 cats, several of whom share her bed, never cleans her house or washes herself. She cannot manage her money of her rations properly but sends messages by each bus for tit-bits for the cats. She used to be alcoholic; may now take chlorodine; is usually peculiar but sometimes more so than others. Kind-hearted but has a terrible temper. Very proud. She is supposed to come of a good family, was educated in Paris and is a cultured...

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"On admission patient was restless and excitable, Says doctor is visiting her father and supplying him with drugs that make it impossible to go about. Interferes with his treatment because she says he is quite well (he has cardiac toruble). Threatens to burn the house down as she is being perscuted by everyone. States that her heart has been transferred from left to right sidee. That 10 years ago a bicycle went right through her body."

Scope and Contents 'This woman has periodic outbreaks when she is really mental. She gets forgetful, forgets what she has gone to the shops for, forgets to come back. Has had some difficult pregnancies. Rough farmhouse, not very clean, not overcrowded. Bad outlook, some rows. [Female informant] - always going into rages about nothing - someone might do something to her children. You might meet her fifty times and she will not look at you, then she would start talking and you wouldn't be able to get rid of her....

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"Diagnosis: Paraphrenia. Parents dead. Mother died in childbirth. Patient was quite agitated and lost weight becuase he worried over a delusional system which he developed. Believed that his "mate" was spreading rumours about him wherever he went. The rumours were largely concerning his personal habits - mainly his habit of masturbation. Shows no insight whatsoever. Also appeared to be subject to auditory hallucinations."