Schizophrenia

"This woman has insane obsessions - had some about old man next door, made his life a misery. Nurse - a clever woman, an M.A., neighbour used to upset her a lot - hammered on her wall at night."

"Ex-army. Single. Parents dead. Brother in CRI until his death."

"This man was sent to PCLA [Perth Criminal Lunatic Asylum] for murder but is since thought to have died. Incomer. Alcoholic."

"Admitted CRI. Discharged. Rate-aided. Diagnosis "delusio" but also referred to as manic-depressive and has having many schizoid tendencies. Now a farm worker."

"Admitted CR, rate-aided. Paranoid Schizophrenia. Mother, now dead, was an invalid in a bath chair. This woman was not really local - her parents had migrated to England bu returned after they were bombed out."

"This man works at the pithead - he is dour, dirty - never takes advantage of the pithead baths - deformed, queer, a bit mental. Would lie in bed for days on end. A silly dirty creature. Illegitimate. Dirty house, 4 or 5 people in it - there used to be 10. Two rooms. "What a den"."

"This man is always throwing up his job, will sit for hours under an appletree rather than go to work. He is a miner but the police often have to knock him up to make him go to work. He often cycles about carrying a spade though he does not use it. Kept telling the nurse somebody had left her money. Lives on his widowed mother if he can. Was in and out of the navy on account of his mental condition. Dr has CR forms in the house and threatens him with them from time to time."

Questionnaires for persons in Area 23. Indexed.

Questionnaires for persons in Area 23. Indexed.

"This man is silly, over religious, has a grouse against everybody. Has his own peculiar brand of religion."