Intellectual Disability
Found in 3009 Collections and/or Records:
30.88 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, High grade mental defective, Physical illness or invalidism, November 1946
"IQ 71, dull as ditchwater, backward but nice. Working at the tailor's. Has a club foot, TB?."
Siblings: 30.90, 30.89, 30.93 Mother: 30.92 Father: 30.87
30.89 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, High grade mental defective, November 1946
"Definitely backward, working on a farm. [Male informant] says he is completely daft, acts the goat."
Siblings: 30.88, 30.90, 30.93 Mother: 30.92 Father: 30.87
30.90 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, November 1946
"Also dull, works on a farm. She is the most normal looking of the lot but runs after soldiers."
Siblings: 30.88, 30.89, 30.93 Mother: 30.92 Father: 30.87
30.91 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, November 1946
"The nicest of the family but dull."
Siblings: 30.88, 30.90, 30.89, 30.93, 30.94 Mother: 30.92 Father: 30.87
30.92 Female, Married, 35-44 yrs, Dull and backward, November 1946
"Always simple, fond of pleasure, was 16 when her first child, an illegitimate son, was born. He has always thought she was his sister. Parents awfully decent but with a minimum of intelligence."
Children: 30.88, 30.90, 30.89, 30.93 Husband: 30.87
30.93 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, High grade mental defective, November 1946
"IQ 70-, now working. Big house, 5 rooms. Eldest brother killed in the war. 14 siblings, not all at home."
Siblings: 30.88, 30.90, 30.89 Mother: 30.92 Father: 30.87
30.94 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, November 1946
"IQ 75, pretty dull, now on factory work in Selkirk or Jedburgh."
Siblings: 30.88, 30.90, 30.89, 30.93, 30.91 Mother: 30.92 Father: 30.87
31.11 Female, Separated or divorced, 25-34 yrs, High grade mental defective, August 1945
"[Female informant] says this girl is much worse than her sister. She works in munitions. She had an illegitimate child before marriage; her husband has now left her and she has had an illegitimate child since. Housing: Lives with her parents in a 4 or 5 roomed house, very over-crowded but clean. Dr confirms that this girl comes from a bad family; they are all dull. She had a baby at 16."
31.13 Male, Widowed, Over 65 yrs, High grade mental defective, Senile and Arterio-sclerotic psychoses, July 1945
"This man inhertied money, retired from his work on the railway and married a girl of 20. He soon ran through all his money. His wife has died, no family. He is now living alone in a small house on PA. Is considered silly and soft. Dr - definitely sub-normal, mentally and physically. Wife had left him before she died."
31.14 Male, Single, 25-34 yrs, Dull and backward, Physical illness or invalidism, October 1945
"This boy had an IQ of 72 at school and was deaf. He is now working on a farm, looks quite smart and tidy. [Male informant] thinks this boy is all right apart from his deafness. Dr says this boy is dull and lazy; has had a TB ankle. Now works on a farm. Deafness due to perforation."