admission book entries

Date of Admission	Name	Age	Result of Examination
20th February 1958	Dorothy	51	She is depressed and deluded. She believes that the police are after her and have planted a kind of rat poison in the drawers of her home.
21st February 1958	Florence	36	She is deluded against her husband. She accuses him of trying to turn her into his mother. Says that he interferes sexually with their son and states that he calls her a Welsh prostitute.
21st February 1958	Eileen	37	A dull retarded bemused chronic schizophrenic.
28th May 1958	Gladys	37	She is depressed, muddled and says that she has committed mental suicide. She attempted real suicide by coal gas poisoning four days ago.
17th June 1958	Rosemary	18	She is hallucinated for hearing and says she hears her husband talking to her and says that he is a sex maniac who goes and rapes women. Her visual hallucinations she describes as dreams.
15th July 1958	Elaine	50	She believes that she is under the direct guidance of God and she sees visions of him. She tells me that she's been doing his work this morning.
30th September 1958	Ellen	61	A feeble minded woman, dull, lacking in spontaneity, unable to do her housework and on her own statement eating inadequately.
5th October 1958	Alice	50	She believes that "trainers" for government business come into her home to do their training and that they interfere with the wireless and the television by tampering with the aerials and the wiring. The people she believes are trainers are her brother-in-law and her sister.
24th October 1958	Maureen	26	This schizophrenic is retarded, suspicious and says says she is worried about herself. She is suspicious of her food and asks the nurses to eat it first. She has no active interests at present.
25th November 1958	Brenda	30	She is hallucinated for hearing and believes that she is married to Alan Ladd the film star and will be going with him to America shortly.
20th April 1959	Johanna	48	She says that [?] comes up from the ground and paralyses her legs and that it is now coming from the air and affecting her head.
23rd April 1959	Ethel	46	She has persecutory ideas about the man who lives above her. She states that he poisoned his mother with cyanide and tried to poison her by putting cyanide in her milk etc.
23rd June 1959	Florence	72	She is drowsy. Deluded the she is the subject of electrical influences.
3rd July 1959	Violet	54	Deluded that she is receiving messages not to eat by radio telegraphy.
21st November 1960	Florence	42	Aggressive, violent, defiant, destructive and smashing windows. [?] of attempted suicide, order extended to section 25.