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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

Found in 3009 Collections and/or Records:

16.35 Male, Single, 25-34 yrs, Psychopathic personality, Dull and backward, December 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents "Said to have been in CRI under certificate. Was also at an approved school. He was later in the army, was discharged because of his mental condition. He is said to have started a lot of fires in order to give his father work to do. R.C. from Ireland. Mother drinks like a fish. House not very clean. Disturbed. Single, a labourer. No Public Assistance. Definitely peculiar but a very nice speaker. Dr: A funny lad. Set fire to ricks because he thought them beautiful when burning. Very unsteady...
Dates: Other: December 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 16

16.36 Male, Single, 25-34 yrs, High grade mental defective, January 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents "On Dr's list of defectives. Nurse confirms he is defective, is employed at times, loves dressing up and being the door-keeper of the cinema. Mother dead. Sisters normal - one has a baby with a hare lip and cleft palate. One brother. Not overcrowded, clean. [Male informant] only knows him by sight. Definitely very simple - like the rest of the family. No public assistance. [Male informant] says this is a very nice family, especially the girls. Dr confirms - high grade defective. Was in...
Dates: Other: January 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 16

16.39 Female, Married, Over 65 yrs, High grade mental defective, January 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents

"Said to be peculiar and soft. There is an awful mix up of children and grandchildren in the house. Dr says that this woman sticks at nothing, is not honest but works hard. Adopted son."


Relatives in survey: Husband [16.38], children [16.40 and 16.41, 16.122]

Dates: Other: January 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 16

16.40 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, December 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents

"IQ 72, very poor, definitely backward. Nurse confirms: Labouring and poaching. [Male informant] says this man is in the navy."


Relatives in survey: Sibling [16.41].

Dates: Other: December 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 16

16.41 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, January 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents

"IQ 76, was dull. Now working as a labourer and poaching. Housing: Fairly clean, overcrowded. Dr confirms. No public assistance since the war. Unsatisfactory family. About 14 in the house."


Relatives in survey: Father [16.38]. Mother [16.39]. Brother [16.40]. Sister [16.122]

Dates: Other: January 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 16

16.42 Female, Single, 35-44 yrs, Dull and backward, January 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents

"This woman has four illegitimate children. She lives with her parents on a farm. The children are all D - i.e. between 80 and 90. Nurse says she is soft. The children and quite smart, two have TB. Not known to Rev. No public assistance."

Dates: Other: January 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 16

16.45 Female, Single, 35-44 yrs, Dull and backward, December 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents "Simple, a wee bit weak mentally, able to work. Lives with her parents and her three illegitimate children. Nurse confirms she is soft; worked in the factory canteen during the war, now at home. Parents about 70, are peculiar and feeble-minded people, a low-grade family. One sister has an illegitimate child. One sister married, has a child [16.307]. Attempted suicide with aspirins 15 years ago when mother turned her out. Good worker, just. Fairly clean, not overcrowded. Inharmonious....
Dates: Other: December 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 16

16.47 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Dull and backward, December 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents

"IQ 77, dull. Illegitimate. Mother is working near [area]. Inharmonious. Nurse confirms. Was in the San. with TB."


Relatives in survey: Cousin [16.46].

Dates: Other: December 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 16

16.48 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, High grade mental defective, January 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents

"This child is a Mongol - Nurse. Father a farmer. Father's brother and family. Mother, about 42, OK. Siblings: 3 living, OK, badly behaved. one child was hydrocephalic and died. Maternal grandmother. Large house, comfortable. Dr: Erythoblastus foetalis. Harmless."


Relatives in survey: Uncle 17.5, grandmother 16.86

Dates: Other: January 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 16

16.49 Female, Married, 25-34 yrs, Dull and backward, December 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents "Very dull, unsociable. Married and has one child, a girl, dull. Dull, used to work in the factory. Husband a bad lot, used to knock her about. Cannot confirm that husband is unsatisfactory. They now have another child. Nurse: Has two children and is expecting another. Husband had left her but is back again. Children are all right. Clean house. Dr. thinks this woman is just ordinary, husband not dull. No public assistance. Husband was in the army during the war."Relatives in...
Dates: Other: December 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Social Work / Mental Health Survey / Survey Data / Area 16