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"This child is asthmatic. [Female informant] said she was worse than her brother "just stood and looked at you". Probably at least dull and backward."

Relatives in survey: Mother 11.33 siblings 11.35, 11.36, 11.78, father 11.37

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"This girl suffers from asthma, is a bit nervous and excitable. Quite intelligent."

Relatives in survey: mother 11.55

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"This man was in CR - diagnosis bronchial asthma and confusional state. He was a farmer, is now retired and living with his sister. Dr says this old senile is doing all right. siblings are normal, good housing conditions."

Scope and Contents "This boy suffers from asthma; he has very bad tonsils, which ought to be removed but his grandmother won't permit it. He is getting duller - thought to be due to his tonsils. He has missed a lot of schooling with ill-health. Illegitimate. Not a nervous child. Has also discharing ears. Mother 30-40. Her mother would not let her marry [patient's] father. A bit soft. Laundry worker. Grandmother, a difficult old woman, up against authority - the school and the school doctors are always...

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"A little twister, on and off Public assistance, suffers from asthma and bronchitis, a very casual labourer. Married, has 4 or 5 children. Nurse says the children are not dull. Wife's brother lives with them. They only have one room but it is very big. Dirty, inharmonious. All in one room, dirty. Children filthy. Unsteady work record - on benefit just now."

Relatives in survey: Mother 16.195, sister 16.194, 31.39, 31.40

Scope and Contents "Dull but bright enough to try and diddle you. Was working in an engineering firm now on compensation. Bronchitis and asthma, not alcoholic. Father, dead, scurvy. Children: 3, all undernourished, Dr confirms. Off and on Public assistance. House fairly clean, not overcrowded, inharmonious. Labour Exchange: Unsteady work record but has not been on the register for some time. Nurse confirms, just a wrong one. Was on PA. On and off all the time. [Male informant] confirms that this man is a...

Scope and Contents 'This man is a famous poacher and ne'er-do-well, has had convictions for poaching and assault. Considered a waster. Used to live on his wits and PA, has worked for ICI and the Air Ministry as a labourer. Denounced by the rest of his family. Father, dead, old soldier and innkeeper. Twice married, second wife an intelligent woman. Housing: 2 rooms for 5 adults and child. Clean. Dr confirms - a pleasant rogue, used to poach for excitement, used to pay the doctor in salmon. Had been very...

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'This woman is asthmatic, aggressive, will not stay in bed when she is ill. has been ill a lot, ever since the death of their only son.'

Relatives in survey: Husband 22.44

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'This man is said to be epileptic, certainly asthmatic. Used to be at tractor driver. Mother is tubercular.'

Relatives in survey: Siblings

Scope and Contents "Patient's father died when she was 4 and her mother went into a mental home at the same time. Patient has been brought up by two sets of aunts and uncle from an early age. Husband is a farm foreman. Rate-aided patient. Main complaint of a pain in her chest which she attributes to the strain of astham. First attack of asthma was while she was preparing a new house in a lonely part of the country. Nervous factor in astham explained. She had always been particularly afraid of asthma because of...