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"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."

Scope and Contents "This woman was admitted to CRI and discharged. Rate-aided. Not diagnosed but was delusional, thought there was poison in the soup, prussic acid in medicine, people threatening her, detectives guarding her. In an acute excitement. Flight of ideas and distractability. ? Hypomania, but some disorder of thought as well. Husband had been a coal agent. [Male informant] says she still wanders about the town in queer attire, "no just correct", but is no trouble to anyone. Used to be a housekeeper...

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"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."

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" "No just thorough, light-headed". Has been on a charge for stealing a bicycle which he destroyed; also suspected of breaking shop windows but this was never proved. Sits for hours in front of the fire with his head in his hands. Solitary, no mates. Now working in the mill. Father, decent. Mother dead. Siblings all OK. Steady work record."

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Questionnaires for persons in Area 29. Indexed.

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Questionnaires for persons in Area 29. Indexed.

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Questionnaires for persons in Area 29. Indexed.

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"This girl attended the OP clinic. Diagnosed as M.D. with schizophrenic features; had always been solitary, sat at home at night and sewed. Did badly at school. Works as a milker, part time. Still very quiet and retiring. No further paranoid ideas, no voices."

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Questionnaires for persons in Area 29. Indexed.