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2.1 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and Backward, Physical illness or invalidism, April 1945

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/2
Scope and Contents "This boy has an IQ of 71. He is TB?, has had double pneumonia, off school for the last 4 months. Naturally backward aswell as backward through illness. Gentle and polite child but very backward. Neglected by mother who has to go out and work. Registrar: Mother a big strong woman, looks simple, she was herself illegitimate. Dr confirms - thsi boy has been ill a lot, but apart from that he is not normal and will be a handful. His brother is very impertinent. The children have no proper...
Dates: Other: April 1945

11.8 Female, Widow, 55-64 yrs, Schizophrenia, November 1945

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/10
Scope and Contents "This woman is a "dirty old slut", never washes her face has a "notorious smell". The Parish Council have tried unsuccessfully to get her to clean up her house, but as it is her own property they can't do anything. Widow. Parents dead was brought up by aunts who spoilt her and were senile before they died. One daughter has two illegitimate children. One daughter has three illegitimate children. All verminous. Housing "two ends" for 8, filthy. [Male informant] used to visit them because the...
Dates: Other: November 1945

"120 przygód Koziołka Matołka" (120 Adventures of Matolek the Billy Goat), 1945

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Identifier: Coll-705/2/3/7
Scope and Contents

This is a comic book about the adventures of a well known anthropomorphic Billy-Goat and his dog. Published in Dormagen, Germany in 1945.

Dates: 1945

12.3 Female, Widowed, Married, 45-54 yrs, High grade mental defective, February 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/11
Scope and Contents

"This woman is thoughtless, not very bright mentally, a loose old dame, went with soldiers. Use to send her husband on the bus for messages and then had a good time. PAO says this woman is hypochondrial, aye girning. Dr says they are both a bit peculiar. Nurse "peculiar, awful tongue, not just quite....". Dr confirms - she is MD."


Relatives in survey: husband 12.4, children 12.5, 12.42

Dates: Other: February 1946

15.9 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, High grade mental defective, January 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/14
Scope and Contents

"This boy is very slow and backward. He is illegitimate. His mother married again but her husband would not have him in the house, so he lives with his grandmother. Clean and well looked after. No. P.A. [Male informant] says his grandmother is a "bit of a rag" - flighty. Flies off the handle. [Male informant] says they are decent people. Grandmother looks glaiket but is all right."

Dates: Other: January 1946

20.1 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, Physical illness or invalidism, February 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/19
Scope and Contents

'Pituitary disorder, massive for her age, dull, asthmatic, adipose, genitalia undeveloped. Father a shepherd. Mother OK, "a wailey kind o' creature, a wee bit below normal" - Inspector.'

Dates: Other: February 1947

2.15 Female, Single, 35-44 yrs, Dull and Backward, July 1945

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/2
Scope and Contents

"This woman is called "glaikit" by Dr. She is a big strong woman, looks simple. She works as a farm servant. She is illegitimate, her father was a coachman. Housing, 2 roomed lower part of a cottage, damp and tiny, clean. Family relationships inharmonious, much noise and quarrelling. She has not been able to bring her children up properly or to give them the attention they require as she has been out to work all the time."


Relatives in survey: son 2.1

Dates: Other: July 1945

2.58 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, March 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/2
Scope and Contents

"IQ 81 exempt from control exam. Father a shepherd, mother a bit "glaikit"."


Relatives in survey: 2.50, 2.49, 2.47, 2.48 mother 2.59 father 2.46

Dates: Other: March 1947

2.59 Female, Married, 45-54 yrs, Dull and backward, March 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/2
Scope and Contents

"This woman is described as glaikit, the dullest of her family."


Relatives in survey: children 2.50, 2.58, 2.49, 2.47, 2.48 husband 2.46

Dates: Other: March 1947

2.64 Female, Married, 45-54 yrs, Psychopathic personality, June 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/2
Scope and Contents

"This woman is a bad lot, immoral, just a bitch. Husband has had an awful time with her - on one occasion he threw a teapot at her. She had an affair with their lodger, husband had to sleep in the shed. Just a randy."

Dates: Other: June 1947

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MacRury, John Ewen, c1853-1909 (Torlum | Benbecula) 28
Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) 17
Baillie, Anne, 1809-1847 (Former owner of manuscripts) 14
Baillie, John Baillie, of Leys, 1835-1890 (donor of the Oriental Manuscripts Collection) 14
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MacAulay, John, fl1887 (Iain | fisherman | Gairloch | Ross and Cromarty | and Edinburgh) 12
Watson, William John, 1865-1948 (Professor of Celtic) 9
Cameron, Duncan, c1818-1900 (police officer | Lochaline | Argyllshire) 8
Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille) 7
MacNeil (of Barra) 7
MacPhee, Donald, c1816-1869 7
Currie, Donald, c1826- (crofter | Islay) 6
Laing, David, 1793-1878 (antiquarian, bookseller, and librarian of the Signet Library) 6
MacDonald (of Sleat) 6
MacNeil, Roderick, c1790-1875 6
Campbell, Anthony, 1825-1904 (fisherman and crofter | Kentangaval | Barra) 5
MacIsaac, Hector, c1797-1878 (Eachann mac Ruaraidh | joiner | Iochdar | South Uist) 5
MacLellan, Duncan, c1816-1893 5
MacLeod (of Dunvegan) 5
Mitchell, James, Rev., 1763-1835 (Church of Scotland minister and tutor to Sir Walter Scott) 5
MacAulay, Angus, c1788-fl1870 (An Cnoc | Isle of Lewis | Ross and Cromarty | Scotland) 4
MacInnes, John, c1801-1894 4
MacIsaac, Janet, c1798-1882 4
MacMhuirich (hereditary bards of Clanranald) 4
MacRae, Mary, fl1903 4
Macleod, John, D. D., Rev., 1757-1841 (Presbyterian minister and Gaelic scholar from the Isle of Skye) 4
O' Donovan, John, 1806-1861 (Irish scholar, linguist and historian) 4
Livingstone, Baron of Bachuil (Lismore) 3
MacBain, Alexander, 1855-1914 (Celtic Scholar) 3
MacDonald, Ann, fl1901 (Achadoire | Gleann Spean | Lochaber) 3
MacDonald, Flora, 1722-1790 (Jacobite) 3
MacIntosh, Catherine, c1807- 3
MacKay, Hugh, fl1393 (lieutenant to MacDonald of Islay | Rinns of Islay) 3
MacLean, Marion, 1843-1927 3
MacPhail, Malcolm, Rev, 1837-1906 (minister | Kilmartin | Argyllshire) 3
MacPherson, John, c1820-1885 (Iain Pearson | cottar | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 3
Macleod, Kenneth, 1871-1955 (Church of Scotland minister and folklorist) 3
McIntyre, Joseph, Dr, 1735-1823 (Presbyterian minister at Glenorchy) 3
Morison, John, fl1630-1708 (tacksman | Bragar | Isle of Lewis) 3
Nicolson, Alexander, Sheriff, 1827-1893 (advocate, collector of proverbs) 3
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Robertson, Charles, 1864-1927 (Reverend) 3
Stewart (of Appin) 3
Anderson, David, 1750-1828 (Diplomat, East India Company) 2
Anstruther, Philip, fl 1820s (Sinhalese translator) 2
Armstrong, Robert Archibald, Dr., 1788–1867 (Gaelic lexicographer) 2
Askew, Anthony, 1722-1774 (English physician and book collector) 2
Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 2
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Campbell, Ann (nian Dhonil ic Iain Oig | composer of the song 'Ailean Duinn') 2
Campbell, James, c1806-1876 ('Seumas Chailein' | fisherman | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 2
Campbell, Margaret, c1871-1939 (or Stewart) 2
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Chrysoloras, Manuel, c 1350-1415 (Diplomat, scholar and teacher of Greek literature) 2
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Clerk, Archibald, Rev, 1813-1887 (minister | Kilmallie | Inverness-shire) 2
Free Church of Scotland (1843-:) 2
Grüninger, Johann, d ? 1532 (printer) 2
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Mac Onail, Uisdean 2
MacAulay (Isle of Lewis) 2
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MacCodrum, Iain [John], c1693-1777 (Iain mac Fhearchair | Scottish Gaelic poet) 2
MacDonald (of Balranald) 2
MacDonald (of Boisdale | South Uist) 2
MacDonald, Alexander, c.1700-c.1770 (Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair | poet and schoolmaster) 2
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MacDonald, Archibald, c1750-c1815 (Gille na Ciotaig | bard and satirist | Uist) 2
MacDonald, Hector, c1800-1879 2
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MacDonald, Marshal of France | Duke of Tarentum, 1765-1840 2
MacFarlane, Catherine, c1806-1880 2
MacKenzie, Alexander, c1799- (Alasdair MacCoinnich | farmer | Uisgebhagh | Benbecula) 2
MacLean, Ciorstan, c1855-1937 2
MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873 2
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MacLeod (of Harris) 2
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MacMillan, Mary, c1825-1883 (domestic servant | Lionacuidhe | South Uist) 2
MacNeil, Alexander, c1787-1881 ([Alastair mac Ruari bhain MacNeill ]; fisherman | Kentangaval | Isle of Barra) 2
MacNeil, Hector, c1825 2
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MacNiven, Duncan, 1804-1895 (Donnachadh Phadruig | schoolmaster | Airds | Taynuilt | Argyllshire) 2
MacPhee, Donald, 1784-1868 2
MacPhie, Barbara, c1800-1880 (or MacPhee | pauper | Drimsdale | South Uist) 2
MacRae, Mary, c1790-1879 (dairymaid) 2
Mackinnon, Donald, 1839-1914 (Professor of Celtic, University of Edinburgh) 2
Morrison, Kenneth, c1800-1864 (mason | Trien | Isle of Skye) 2
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