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17.25 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, High grade mental defective, December 1946
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/16
Scope and Contents
"This boy couldn't speak at school,looked hydrocephalic. Can read but is very very backward. Hopeless at putting things down on paper, writing very poor. Nice boy, no trouble. Parents probably cousins. Illegitimate. Family has a reputation for being immoral. Nurse says this child was 7 or 8 before he could talk but is now coming on. Housing clean, not overcrowded, inharmonious."
Relatives in survey: mother 17.24, siblings 17.25, 17.18
Dates:
Other: December 1946
PR4.107, 1957-1958
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Identifier: LHB41 CC/4/PR4.107
Scope and Contents
Case summaries, consent form, notes, autopsy report, charts, reports, contact sheets and correspondence relating to male patient from north Edinburgh and Leith aged 1 at first examination in 1957. Conditions mentioned include: tuberculous meningo-encephalitis; hydrocephalus; and pulmonary tuberculosis. Nonsurgical...
Dates:
1957-1958