"Problem child - enuresis, soiling and running away. IQ 93. Father about 45, farm labourer, really a roadman but had to do farm work in order to get a house. Mother, dead. Stepmother worn out and inadequate. Housing: 3 rooms for 3 adults and 8 children, very dirty. Family relationships inharmonious. Patient had formerly lived with a relative but was badly treated. Known to NSSPCC."

"This child had a fit just before Christmas - was thought to have meningitis but didn't. Housing very good, clean, not overcrowded. Nurse says she was always a backward child, very slow to learn to speak. Dr confirms that she is subnormal. Her convulsive seizures at Christmas were probably hysterical - she had had too much excitement."

Relatives in survey: Father 43.11

"This woman is "no very smart". Dr confirmed that she is definitely dull. Nurse says she is feckless. She has moved about a lot. Housing: Two rooms and a place between. Outside sanitation. Harmonious. Dr says this woman is definitely soft and thinks the children will be too."

Relatives in survey: mother 29.167, husband 43.17

"This boy has an IQ of about 72 and is to go to the Special Class in [area]. He was not good enough to sit the control exam. His parents are very worried about him and his father is seeing the Director of Education as he wants to protest against the stigma involved. The boy is very shy and needs a lot of help. Large farm, clean. Decent people."

Relatives in survey: Father 44.8, mother 44.9, siblings 44.11

"This woman is "definitely neurotic". Housing: smallholding, 3-4 rooms. Clean, harmonious."

"This boy has a stammer and is a bad speaker - has a cleft palate? Father a shepherd. Mother 45-55. 6 siblings. Housing: 3 rooms, fairly clean. Harmonious at times, at other times not."

Relatives in survey: mother 44.48

"This man had an accident when he fractured his skull. He was entitled to £1 a week compensation but compunded for a lump sum settlement which he frittered away. Now on PA. He is feckless, does no work, though minister thinks he could. Father, estate worker. Mother 66 or 67, feckless woman, " a bit of a madam". Housing: Dirty, 4 rooms for 3, they take in lodgers. [Male informant] this man had once a job as a nightwatchman but was unreliable and was dismissed. Gets a pension (PA) of 14/6."

"This little girl is "not quite normal, won't play or mix with other children". only child. Father, very big man, labourer, his father hanged himself. Mother blethers a lot, "not quite all there". Two roomed cottage, passably clean. Harmonious."

Relatives in survey: Mother 44.42

"This child is terribly dull - largely through the remoteness of his home."

Relatives in survey: siblings 45.11, 45.12

"This man, a farm worker, complains of terrible pain in the abdomen and dizzy turns, couldn't walk for it (the dizziness) but can ride a motor bike. Was investigated in hospital. Was ill two years ago with pains in the back and arms and made an awful noise about it. Raved that it was the dampness of his home, but the pains cleared up and he has forgotton the dampness. Lives with his old father, a cripple with arthritis, nice old chap, more guts than his son."