"Was in Class 1E, very dull. Now working in a shop, not so bad. Illegitimate. Mother, unsatisfactory and immoral, dead. Inspector says she was a glamour lady at 15 or 16 and well known to the troops."

Relatives in survey: Sister 36.20

"This woman had a child who died mysteriously - the doctor would not give a certificate. Has the reputation of being immoral. Works on a farm. Nurse - very dressy but a bit dull. House fairly clean, overcrowded at times - soldiers. Inspector: [patient and her sister] are both bitches - both separated from their husbands."

Relatives in survey: Sister 36.47

"IQ 80. Is better than he was but hopeless at counting, quite a nice boy. Dull and backward. Dr - mother is most immoral, about 36, single, several children."

Relatives in survey: Mother 36.47

"Irresponsible and hopeless, a filthy woman, enjoyed herself during the war. (But also said to be quite tidy). Widow."

Relatives in survey: children 39.41, 39.42, 39.44

"Speech defect, low intelligence but not MD. D and E in all subjects except handwork. Father, 50, a ploughman, mentally defective. Mother 38-40, man daft. Queer family, mentally defective. Mother has twice left her family. Dirty and overcrowded ++. [Male informant says they are a hopeless crowd of MD's. The least wee thing would send the mother off, bad-tempered."

Relatives in survey: Mother 39.64, Father 39.63, siblings 39.65, 39.68

"Immoral woman, sounds psychopathic. She is now on probation for not paying her children's keep. Left her husband and lived with a man in Dumfries, returned and left again. Now co-habiting in Carlisle. Comes from a respectable family."

"This woman is an out and out prostitute, loose, has three illegitimate children, is syphilitic. Filthy, they sleep five in a bed. Nurse confirms. The children are poor wee things but it is too early to decide about their mental condition. She is having an affair. There are eight children and four adults in two rooms, filthy."

Relatives in survey: sister 42.10

"This girl is almost illiterate, IQ estimated at 70-. At 12 could barely write her own name. Is now at home, attracting soldiers."

Relatives in survey: Father 44.15, mother 44.16 siblings 44.14, 44.17. 44.18

"This woman is very fat and suffers from endocrine disturbance. Dr condsiders she is hysterical - frigid - "prim, randy, and a flirt". She married a ploughman as she was pregnant by him. Has the reputation of being unfaithful to her husband; ran around a good deal with Australians."

Relatives in survey: Mother 44.1

"He is an epileptic or at least "subject to fits of an epileptic character". Not defective. Now in merchant navy. His mother is a bedswerver, carries on with other men, doesn't get on with her husband and has wanted to leave him in the past. A lot of family quarrelling."

Relatives in survey: Mother 44.59 aunt 44.36