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16.85 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, December 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15

Scope and Contents

"IQ 80, a card. Has been in trouble for damaging an empty house, always truanting. Father, a labourer. Mother was in the ATS. Siblings - big family of older ones, all dull, rather a low type. Some of the girls were in the ATS. Nurse confirms. All this family are deficient, especially the girls. One girl has been in trouble with the police. The girls are step siblings. Now in a prefab, quite clean, overcrowded. No public assistance. Dr. says all the girls were unstable. Condemned house. 4 rooms."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 16.229, 16.230

Dates

  • Other: December 1946

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Extent

2 Sheets

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