Intellectual Disability

"Not too bright, looks dull. No Public Assistance. Dr says that they are intellectually a backward family, but shrewd. A lot worse than they. Parents backward - he thinks the mother is dull too (but nurse disagrees)."

Relatives in survey: Father 7.17

"IQ 70- defective. Polite to the point of being a nuisance, is teased by the others. Definitely simple. Works with his father. Father, a farmer, a terror for work. Nurse confirms. Soft but all there. Parents are cousins."

Relatives in survey: Mother 7.21

"I.Q. 71. Dull, began nursing but did not stick it. Clean house, decent people."

"I.Q. 77. there was a queerness about them all but they have grown up into quite decent adults. Father a farm worker. V. quiet, retiring, decent. Mother 50+, talks++, decent family, quite bright. Brother killed in the war. Clean house, not overcrowded now. Minister confirms. Most of them all right, he thinks."

Relatives in survey: Siblings 7.26, 7.27

"Soft, not very bright, single. Farmer. Mother 70+, tough and wiry, Ok. Two sisters - one died of TB [tuberculosis], dull. The other all right. Dirty house - "They just guddle away there". Dr.: Just a backward, acquisitive family. Nothing wrong intellectually. Minister - his mother and he run the farm - he does not mix, very shy, but farm is remote. Capable. Mother now over 80. Harmonious."

"Lives with his grandparents. Has been at 6 schools before this. Has a lisp and a shy manner, likeable, willing to oblige but his attainments are awful, only knew the two times table. General knowledge fair, but definitely dull. Father a farm worker. Four sib[ling]s living with father somewhere in Dumfriesshire. Two other children live there, both a bit dull but OK, younger. Have not had time to fall so far behind."

"This woman has had six illegitimate children, is very simple. She is permanently on PA. Thought to live off her family allowance, looks simple. Keeps house for her father. Mother dead. Died when she was 14. An awful family, very poor. House a terrible place. PAO will not do any more for her because she will not accept indoor relief. "A terrible den". 3 rooms. Only £3 a week coming in."

Relatives in survey: Father 7.35; children 7.53

"IQ 75 low average. Works with his father, a farmer, nice lad. Father [7.41] drinks in bouts - Saturday nights. Mother 45+. Sister doing domestic science, another sister a housekeeper somewhere. Another at High School. Decent people. Nurse agrees that he is not very clever but OK mentally. Minister confirms - father overworks his family and they are leaving home."

Relatives in survey: Father 7.41

"Not very bright, a widow, shy and retiring, lives alone. Dr says she is all right. Her husband who died 3 years ago was very queer. Minister thinks she is ok, very nice, deaf. No children known."

"IQ 79. One of a big family, decent people. Father a farmer. Mother talks big - was a secretary in the last war. Nice family, mother a clever woman."

Relatives in survey: cousin 7.3; siblings 7.45