Intellectual Disability

16.85 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, December 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15

Scope and Contents "IQ 80, a card. Has been in trouble for damaging an empty house, always truanting. Father, a labourer. Mother was in the ATS. Siblings - big family of older ones, all dull, rather a low type. Some of the girls were in the ATS. Nurse confirms. All this family are deficient, especially the girls. One girl has been in trouble with the police. The girls are step siblings. Now in a prefab, quite clean, overcrowded. No public assistance. Dr. says all the girls were unstable. Condemned house. 4...

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

16.89 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, High grade mental defective, December 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15

Scope and Contents

"Very dull, has been put back a class, cussed, shifty. Illegitimate. Mother died in childbirth, was very dull, little more than a prostitute, defective. Only child. Formerly lived with his grandmother, now dead. Now lives with aunt. No public assistance. Dr thinks all the grandmother's children were to different fathers."

Relatives in survey: grandfather 16.92

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

16.90 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, Dull and backward, December 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15

Scope and Contents

"IQ 71, neurotic, good at dancing and singing, just like a flea. Illegitimate. Cousin: Also illegitimate, has a heart condition, very poor writer. They live with the grannie. No public assistance."

Relatives in survey: mother 16.285

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

16.94 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

"Dull. Nurse confirms - they are all defective. There was a murder there 3 years ago. Father, a casual labourer, no OAP. Dr confirms. [Male informant] says this woman and her husband are on PA just now. A motley lot."

Relatives in survey: Mother 16.195, husband 16.93, brother 16.88

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

16.95 Male, Married, 35-44 yrs, Dull and backward, January 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15

Scope and Contents

"This man, a joiner, is dull. Wife, a nice woman. Children: 3 girls living; 1 girl died of TB meningitis; one hydrocephalic child died. Clean house, not overcrowded, harmonious. [Male informant] thinks he is decent and good-living. No information about siblings. No Public assistance. This is a nice family, a wee bit dull. Mother delicate. Condemned house. 4 rooms."

Relatives in survey: stepchild 16.131, cousin 16.216

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

16.96 Male, Married, 45-54 yrs, Dull and backward, January 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15

Scope and Contents

"Dr says this man can do his signals but is very dull, was in trouble over as accident. Nurse says the whole family are dull. Condemned house. 3 rooms."

Relatives in survey: wife 16.97, daughter 16.285

Dates: Other: January 1947