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Down Syndrome

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

3.33 Male, Married, 45-44 yrs, Dull and backward, July 1947

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/3
Scope and Contents

"A nasty streak in him, looks like a Mongol, low mentality, dull, wife has had a rotten deal with him. Farm worker. Wife, nice. 14 children altogether. All dullish but not bad enough for the practical class - will be able to make the High School. They have all suffered from the itch, scabies and ringworm. Minister does not think he is queer. Dirty."


Relatives in survey: Wife, 3.35, son, 3.34

Dates: Other: July 1947

39.2 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Low grade mental defective, August 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/39
Scope and Contents

"? Mongol, flat face. Father, boisterous, swearing, aggressive man, boastful and rough. Mother, aged 37."


Relatives in survey: Half sister 39.1, father 39.3

Dates: Other: August 1947

14.21 Male, Single, 25-34 yrs, Idiocy, October 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/13
Scope and Contents

"This congential defective was admitted to C.R. in 1931, rate-aided. "This Mongol is of the idiot grade"."

Dates: Other: October 1946

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

18.57 Male, Single, 35-44 yrs, Low grade mental defective, June 1947

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

"High grade defective at least, sounds like a Mongol. Has never been able to work but can help at home and go messages. Sometimes directs the traffic at the cross-roads. Mother, 90, senile. Father dead. Lives with his brother and sister - there is an 18 year age gap between them and him. Parents refused to have him sent to an institution. Well looked after."


Mother: 18.58

Dates: Other: June 1947

28.45 Male, Single, 14 yrs and under, High grade mental defective, July 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/27
Scope and Contents

"Not very bright, defintely defective. Mongol type? At school, can go about town. Parents exceptionally nice. Father a scourer at a woollen mill. Sister, married, clever girl. Mother 40+. [Male informant] says he is a Mongol. IQ 42."

Dates: Other: July 1946

30.84 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, High grade mental defective, November 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/29
Scope and Contents

"Definitely MD but able to work about the house. Was not at school. Father a joiner, delicate. Mother about 50, OK. Clean house, not overcrowded, harmonious. PC - completely gone, was in Special Class. She is a Mongol. Will never be able to work."


Sibling: 30.85

Dates: Other: November 1946

32.48 Male, Single, 35-44 yrs, Low grade mental defective, February 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/31
Scope and Contents

"On Dr's list of defectives. Cannot work, has not had any education, just a liability. Father was an upholsterer, dead, queer. Uncle was very queer. Lodges, has a private income. Dr - a Mongol."

Dates: Other: February 1946

33.48 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Low grade mental defective, June 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/32
Scope and Contents

"Mongol, will never be able to work. Good living conditions."

Dates: Other: June 1947

Defective down syndrome in chicks is not caused by riboflavin deficiency in breeders, 1993

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Identifier: Coll-1362/4/260
Scope and Contents

Located in Roslin Institute Staff Papers 1993. Part 2.

Dates: 1993