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8.179 Female, Married, 45-54 yrs, High grade mental defective, May 1947
"Simple, when she came home from having a caesarian operation, she maintained that she had been circumcised. Dr confirms she is stupid and a slattern."
16.107 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, Anxiety neurosis, March 1947
16.108 Male, Married, 25-34 yrs, Psychopathic personality, December 1946
16.111 Female, Married, 25-34 yrs, Dull and backward, Psychopathic personality, January 1947
"Just a prostitute, dull. Husband, a labourer, was in the army, also dull. RC Irish. Children: One or two died early. Daughter died at birth, spina bifida. Again pregnant. Some of them are illegitimate. From Nurse. Dirty. Dr confirms that she is dull but does not know what the children are like. Nurse says the children are not too bad."
Relatives in survey: Son 16.288, mother 16.118
16.117 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, High grade mental defective, February 1947
"Said to be MD, a bit funny. [Male informant] says she is flighty but dull, now working in hotel. [Male informant] thinks she has had two or three illegitimate children. Very undesirable. No public assistance."
Relatives in survey: Mother 16.118
16.145 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, February 1947
"IQ of 75. Now working in factory in [area]. Dull. Mother dead. Stupid woman - had an acute obstruction and refused to go to hospital. Sister had a halfcaste baby which died. No public assistance for a long time. Clean and respectable family. The siblings are all dull like [patient] but look nice and quiet. One is married."
16.151 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, February 1947
"IQ 74, dull, wouldn't go to school after her siblings died. Now working in cafe. Father on railway, separated from mother. Mother in her 40s. Four siblings died of diphtheria on the same day. One sister surviving. Dirty house, not overcrowded. Dr confirms - not much good. Dour child. [Male informant] confirms that this girl was a bit dull - a problem when she was on the [area name redacted] side. Nurse confirms."
Relatives in survey: mother 16.152
16.154 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, High grade mental defective, January 1947
"IQ was 81, [Male informant] considers her very dull. Father a smallholder. Dirty. Mother, 40-50, very dull and bovine, very untidy, no appearance of intelligence, nose always at the grindstone. No public assistance."
Relatives in survey: mother 16.155, siblings 16.156, 16.157
16.178 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Low grade mental defective, December 1946
"Can hardly read, no sense of responsibility, very backward. Illegitimate. Housing not very clean. A nephew of the mother lives with them. Dr - with each pregnancy the mother hopes to catch a husband."
Relatives in survey: Mother [16.180]; sibling [16.179]
16.229 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Psychopathic personality, February 1947
"This girl ran away with a soldier during the war, had a baby in an institution in England. She is now living at home and working in [area name redacted]. Still unmarried, a loose type of girl. Wears glasses. Applied for PA but was refused."
Relatives in survey: Half brother 16.85; sister 16.230