Scope and Contents "This boy attended the Special Class; was very backward, bad attender and a most unsatisfactory boy. Started to work on a farm at 12 years - mother kept saying he had an exemption but he was on the school register for two years more without ever attending. Very good with horses. Illegitimate. Grandfather a ploughman. Big house, not overcrowded, clean. Dr confirms this is a very soft family - he thinks [subject] is MD. PC says he is a "steerin' kind of a boy", was once in trouble for breaking...

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"This woman is funny ? defective? "family have an obvious element of mental deficiency". Two daughters - both look defective. Two rooms, passably clean. Nurse says this woman is a wee bit simple; mentally not very bright. Her married daughter looks peculiar."

Scope and Contents "This is a "silly lassie, more or less an imbecile". Always at home, can't go out to work. Sometimes sits and howls. Mother dead, father's sister died in CR. Lives alone with her single brother. They used to have a housekeeper, now have no help. House, a large one, is in a frightful mess - [male informant] says he doesn't know how they survive. Harmonious. [Male informant] says this girl should be in CR. Somebody now comes to do the housework. There was some talk of her being sent to a home...

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"This boy had an IQ of 79, headmaster thinks he is all right, however. Dr confirms backwardness. [Male teacher] confirms - dull and with no concentration. His mother is excitable and silly. [Male informant] confirms, this boy has been truanting a lot. Spoilt child, bad home influence."

Relatives in survey: sibling 11.27, aunt 11.25, mother 11.49

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"This boy was specially tested and has a Binet Simon of 70. He can do infant reading. Gives no difficulty, just slow. Father in RAF, a farmer, Uncle killed in the war, mother about 45. Backwardness probably comes from his mother's side too; mother's brother was 9 before he left the Infant Department but is now all right, a general dealer. Housing: good, not overcrowded, harmonious."

Relatives in survey: sibling 11.26, aunt 11.25, mother 11.49

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"This boy has an IQ of 79. [Former teacher] confirms dullness. Gave no difficulty at school. Father a quarryman. Decent family, clean, not overcrowded. They seem to be just generaly dull. [Male informant] confirms - very reserved, dull and backward. Dr says there is not much to him. [Male teacher] confirms this boy is dull and his speech is bad."

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"Developmental age of about 3 years, has the physical appearance of a defective. Can speak only a few words. Father, 36, tenant of a small farm. Mother, 40, a little nervous. Good home conditions, harmonious. Delicate, nervous child, bronchitis, kidney trouble."

Relatives in survey: Father, Mother

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"This woman is a bit simple, very quiet. She lives with her mother, very old, and her brother - keeps house. Her brother is working on a farm. She has an illegitimate child. House fairly clean. PC confirms that she is a bit simple - laughs at you, showing her one tooth, but won't speak. Daughter is all right."

Relatives in survey: Mother, siblings, children

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"This woman suffers from disseminated sclerosis, had difficulty in walking. Parents dead, father was a gardener. She lives with one brother and a sister-in-law. Housing 2 rooms for 4, clean, decent people."

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"This woman was in CR, rate-aided certified patient. Diagnosis - Paraphrenia. Separated from husband. Husband drank. Parents dead, father was a farmer. PC says this woman is still abnormal, persecuted and queer, lives alone. Nurse confirms - she is queer and suspicious, lives alone, unsociable."