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"This man, an estate worker, is dull, not up to much, very faithful and trustworthy. Illegitimate, mother, who was a half-wit, is dead. Wife, decent woman, devoted mother."

Relatives in survey: Son 35.80

Scope and Contents "Queer and bats according to Dr. Father committed suicide. Terribly anxious to push [son] on, makes him do lessons during the holidays, frequently reduces him to tears, gets exasperated because he can't concentrate. The father is a very intelligent man, alert, inventive. PC thinks the father his neurotic too. Dr confirms - there is a definite mental trait in her. Husband is a forward, violent man, very capable, forceful and domineering, unpopular."Relatives in survey: Son:...

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"Spoilt by his mother who would wrap him in cotton wool. Was a difficult birth. Big boy, dull. Good natured, no concentration, not well equipped mentally. Mother always keeping him off school for no reason at all - would go off her head if anything happened to him."

Relatives in survey: Father 35.79

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"Very aggressive, neglects her children. Is probably a Miss. Lived for a time in one roomed cottage."

Relatives in survey: son 39.31

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"This woman is a rat - dresses herself up to the nines and leaves her children every evening. Always shifting, dirty. Children and 2 adults in 2 rooms. Inharmonious."

Relatives in survey: Children 45.18, 45.20

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"This lad was a problem, truanting, now a bit better. Bright. Father, works at laundry. Mother, dead, was peculiar, did nothing about her home, kept an awful house, was deficient. Out of control after his mother died - no one to see that he went to school. Dr says this boy suffers from lack of parental control."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 16.09

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"Said to be a terrible bad-tempered woman, thrashes her son. Vile temper, highly strung."

Relatives in survey: son 16.114

Scope and Contents " "He is an immature looking boy who has had a good deal of physical illness during the last few years. His home conditions are not favourable in so far as his relatives are over-anxious and over-protective. He never mixed with other children while he was small and developed an anxiety neurosis as soon as he started school. At present it seems advisable for him to go to school mornings only and our Social Worker will get in touch with the teacher to discuss the problem of improving his...

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"This child has an impediment in his speech, is backward but cheifly because of frequent absences. Pampered and spoilt by his mother. Mischievous children, very disobedient, inharmonious home life. Not so dull as his brother."

Relatives in survey: brother 16.149, mother 16.153

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"Terrible woman, a bad one, neglected her children. Her husband, a railwayman, has left her. She goes out to work. [Male informant] confirms, a bad mother, uncoperative, wrote abusive letters, would not have her children immunised. Nurse confirms."

Relatives in survey: daughter 16.151