Intellectual Disability
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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Subnormal intellectual functioning which originates during the developmental period. This has multiple potential etiologies, including genetic defects and perinatal insults. Intelligence quotient (IQ) scores are commonly used to determine whether an individual has an intellectual disability. IQ scores between 70 and 79 are in the borderline range. Scores below 67 are in the disabled range. (from Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p28) Created For = LHSA-Dott
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1.509 Female, 35-44 yrs, High grade mental defective, May 1947
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
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Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.
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Other: May 1947
1.510 Male, 14 yrs and under, Low grade mental defective, June 1947
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
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Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.
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Other: June 1947
1.511 Female, 25-34 yrs, High grade mental defective, May 1947
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
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Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.
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Other: May 1947
15.12 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, High grade mental defective, January 1946
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/14
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"This lad had an I.Q. of 70. P.C. "there is something that should not be there about him". The school master says he is a kind of half-wit who never keeps a job long - he has just been dismissed by the builder who could not put up with him. [Male informant] thinks this boy is "intelligent but not intellectual" but contradicts himself by saying that you can't make anything of him. He is cute, inclined to be dishonest, can't write properly. Nurse thinks this boy is all right. He has been...
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Other: January 1946
1.515 Female, 25-34 yrs, High grade mental defective, May 1947
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
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Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.
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Other: May 1947
15.15 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and Backward, Physical illness or invalidism, January 1946
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/14
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"This boy suffers from asthma; he has very bad tonsils, which ought to be removed but his grandmother won't permit it. He is getting duller - thought to be due to his tonsils. He has missed a lot of schooling with ill-health. Illegitimate. Not a nervous child. Has also discharing ears. Mother 30-40. Her mother would not let her marry [patient's] father. A bit soft. Laundry worker. Grandmother, a difficult old woman, up against authority - the school and the school doctors are always...
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Other: January 1946
15.17 Female, Married, 55-64 yrs, High grade mental defective, Hysteria, January 1946
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/14
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"This woman is "very lugubrious" still thinks her son who was killed 3 years ago in the R.A.F. may come back. Tearful and supersensitive. Thought one of her daughters was being poisoned. Clean home, not over crowded, harmonious."
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Other: January 1946
1.519 Female, 25-34 yrs, Dull and backward, June 1947
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
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Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.
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Other: June 1947
1.521 Female, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, September 1947
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/1
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Questionnaires for persons in Area 1.
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Other: September 1947
15.21 Male, 55-64 yrs, Dull and Backward, January 1946
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/14
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"This man is a little bit simple, backward but a very good worker. Was able to go to school. Father was a farm worker. Carefully brought up. Nurse confirms. This man seems a bit simple, lives in lodgings. Dr confirms - a bit soft, not alcoholic."
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Other: January 1946