Intellectual Disability

"Simple, has had two illegitimate children. Has TB and attends the sanitorium. Keeps house for father."

Relatives in survey: Father 26.57; siblings 26.58

"Far from right. Keeps house to her brother. Clean house. [Male informant] confirms. Parents dead. Both [patient] and her brother are simple. No PA."

"IQ 70, very poor stuff. Family Irish, always on the move. House filthy, very bare, three beds in one room and not much else. Dr confirms that the whole family is deficient."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 26.35, 26.36; father 26.30

"IQ 70-, one of a very poor lot."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 26.34, 26.36; father 26.30

"Far from being normal."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 26.34, 26.35; father 26.30

"A wee bit simple. [Male informant] says she is mental too, like her sister. Husband was in the army, now driving a wagon for a contractor, steady work. Three children. No. PA., clean house."

Relatives in survey: Sister 26.50

"Dull, no sense of number, headmaster not sure what his IQ will be."

Relatives in survey: Mother 26.47

"Attended Loreburn St. Special classes, now working on a farm, very poor mentally. [Male informant] says all this family are of low mentality and [male informant] says there is a kind of simplicity about them. [Male informant] thinks they are all right. Father dead, mother alive, never very bright. Home fairly clean, not overcrowded. They are not alcoholic."

"Speech bad, doubtful if he can speak, ? too dull? "you cannot make anything of him". Has a very bad squint. Father was a regular soldier for 17 years, finds it hard to settle to work. Owing to this they lost their house. From a bad family. Now a labourer. Mother is careless but feeds her family well, an easy going type. Now squatting, fairly clean."

"IQ 77. Dr says she is simple."

Relatives in survey: mother 26.55; father 26.54