Schizophrenia

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Questionnaires for persons in Area 9. Indexed.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Questionnaires for persons in Area 9. Indexed.

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Questionnaires for persons in Area 9. Indexed.

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"This woman, a pensioned off children's nurse, is very peculiar, lives alone, is just a thin long streak, goes about furtively avoiding people. Lives alone, a poor old thing. A man is supposed to visit her at night. Nobody has been in her house."

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"Rate-aided patient. Husband is a farm worker, incomer. Diagnosis: Paraphrenia. Patient was previously married - husband killed in last war. Had three children of that marriage, all alive and well. Since being widowed patient had four illegitimate children by two different men. No children by present husband. Used to attend every funeral. Married 3 times. No siblings known, not local. Condemned house. 4 rooms."

Relatives in survey: Robina area 26, sons 16.144, 16.77

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"General labourer. Goes from door to door asking for accommodation. Goes into houses where he is a complete stranger. Says the Free Masons are trying to injure him. He produces a letter which he says he is posting to the Prime Minister. Illegitimate."

Relatives in survey: Nephew [16.197]

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"Housewife and hawker. Rate-aided patient. Was worried by mother and brother, the latter being a drunkard. Restless, impulsive, confused and appears to be very hallucinated."

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"Died 1947. Father dead. Mother going blind. Sister is imbecile died. Three brothers surviving."

Includes brief correspondence from Cumberland and Westmorland Mental Hospital.

Relatives in survey: Sister

Scope and Contents "Quite mad, dippy, is very annoyed because she thinks [name redacted] in Gretna is engaged to someone. Thinks people cry things after her in the street. Something went wrong with her own love affair. Doesn't work. Lives alone, mother dead. Nurse confirms - should be in the CRI. Very hallucinated and deluded, thinks the police tap on her window at night, interrupts the church service. Has private means. "Sex mania". Dr confirms: paranoid, hears voices, has delusions, is a terrible nuisance,...

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"This woman is an hysterical type, never looks anybody at anybody, just scurries about with her eye cast down. Did nursing for a bit during the war, then did not go any more. Tells queer tales about her brother but they are possibly true. Brother is said to have a black wife and child in Trinidad, put wife in a mental hospital. Nurse confirms she looks at nobody, keeps herself to herself, queer for a long time. Sounds schizophrenic."

Relatives in survey: Mother 16.251