Intellectual Disability

"Very simple, pretty, has been in a lot of places, won't work. Cert MD, was in Special Class. Has given an lot of trouble. Now in service. Had an illegitimate child."

Relatives in survey: Mother 36.12, siblings 36.10, 36.13, 36.14

"Bad, an old randy, immoral."

Relatives in survey: Children 36.10, 36.11, 36.13, 36.14

"IQ 73, dull, was working in a photographer's. I think this is the one whom PC thinks was mental too. Immoral like her mother, had a baby."

Relatives in survey: Mother 36.12, siblings 36.10, 36.11, 36.13

""Thick in the head", desperately stupid, dull. Mother very anxious to push him on, makes him learn his reading off by heart."

Relatives in survey: Mother 36.15

"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

"Certified MD. Overcrowded but clean. They are a feckless lot - thriftless, never have boots or adequate clothes, always borrowing food. And yet £12 goes into the house each week - nobody knows how they spend it as they do not drink. Mother very fond of the pictures. Thought to neglect the family."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 36.22, 36.23, 36.24, 36.25

"Dull child."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 36.21, 36.23, 36.24, 36.25

"Very backward and dull. Gives no trouble."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 36.21, 36.22, 36.24, 36.25

"Backward but not certified, was in the special class, now working."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 36.21, 36.22, 36.23, 36.25

"Backward - very backward, also certified as defective under the Ed. Act, now working with his father."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 36.21, 36.22, 36.23, 36.24