This index is a summary of key information relating to permits of exemption issued to workers who came within the scope of the Rope, Twine and Net Trade Board (Great Britain) - individuals who were regarded as being "affected by any infirmity or physical injury which renders [them] incapable of earning that minimum time-rate". The data is taken from summarised applications for permits of exemption submitted to members of the Board. Click on the case number to see a digitised version of the original source - this can include more information.

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Number	Date	Age	Gender	Employer	Location	Reason	Proposed wages (week)	Other info
R1838/24Link opens in a new window	1924	24	Male	Rendall & Coombs	Bridport	"Severe curvature of the spine"	36 shillings (48 hours)	-
3934/23Link opens in a new window	1924	48	Male	Burfield & Son Ltd.	Hailsham, Essex	"Ankylosis of hip"	35 shillings (48 hours)	-
3932/23Link opens in a new window	1924	45	Male	Burfield & Son Ltd.	Hailsham, Essex	"Tuberculosis of lungs"	38 shillings (48 hours)	-
1720/24Link opens in a new window	1924	22	Male	Ernest Damerall	9, Treville Street, Plymouth	"Mentally deficient"	7 pence per hour	-
1775/24Link opens in a new window	1924	66	Female	Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Port Glasgow	"Age, spinal curvature and Chronic Bronchitis"	23 shillings (47 hours)	-
1777/24Link opens in a new window	1924	43	Female	Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Port Glasgow	"Mental deficiency"	23 shillings (47 hours)	"…suffers from feeble mentality…"
1778/24Link opens in a new window	1924	40	Female	Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Port Glasgow	"Mental deficiency"	23 shillings (47 hours)	"…of feeble mentality…"
R6594/22Link opens in a new window	1922	24	Female	The Forth & Clyde Roperie Co.	Kirkcaldy	"Loss of left arm"	4 & 1/2 pence per hour	-
R12707/22Link opens in a new window	1922	71	Male	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Aberdeen	"Old Age"	46 shillings (47 hours)	-
R12709/22Link opens in a new window	1922	75	Male	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Aberdeen	"Old Age"	41 shillings (47 hours)	-
R12712/20Link opens in a new window	1922	63	Male	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Aberdeen	"Old Age and ill health"	41 shillings (47 hours)	-
R1982/1926Link opens in a new window	1926	63	Male	J. Gould & Son	West Coker, Yeovil	"Constitutional slowness"	7 & 1/2 pence per hour	"…is constitutionally slow"
R6240/1925Link opens in a new window	1926	70	Male	Wm. Marshall & Co.	Marine Place, Buckie	"Age, rheumatism and chronic bronchitis"	20 shillings (48 hours)	"... has been working with us off and on ... since he stopped going to sea ..." "...When he applied for the pension and got it he came and informed us and said he considered he was not doing justice either to himself or us by accepting full wages..." "…unable to stand for any length of time…" Former fisherman
R1968/1926Link opens in a new window	1926	66	Male	Robert Watson & Co.	Cellardyke, Anstruther	"Age"	35 shillings (48 hours)	"... spent most of his life as a fisherman and was prematurely old. He looked much older than 66…very slow…"
R3319/1926Link opens in a new window	1926	24	Male	Mr. T. Caisley	30, Church Road, Tweedmouth	"Mentally deficient"	10 shillings (44 hours)	"…is physically strong and active but mentally deficient. He reads and writes a little with difficulty and his speech at times becomes incoherent …" "… a sub-normal worker. He was very dull and had a sleepy and under-developed brain and fell asleep at his work. He had no initiative and an impediment in the speech and was probably suffering from spasmodic paralysis of the brain, and was also slightly crippled..." "... his parents took responsibility for his movements, as he was not allowed to travel away from home alone..."
R1091/24Link opens in a new window	1926	35	Male	Hutchison & Pollok Ltd.	182, Lodge Lane, Liverpool	"Lacking in intelligence"	18 shillings, 7 & 1/2 pence (47 hours)	"... affected mentally ..." "... applicant is about 4' 9" in height, his back is bent and although he went to school until 14 he only reached Standard III ..."
R2266/26Link opens in a new window	1926	16	Male	The Lancashire Hill Rope & Twine Company	Stockport	"Mentally defective"	3 & 1/2 pence per hour	"…The boy has spent four years at Pentonville Special School for Mentally Defectives. He has a mental age equal to a child of nine years."
R3226/1926Link opens in a new window	1926	60	Female	R. Hood Haggie & Son	Willington, Quay-on-Tyne	"Rheumatism"	20 shillings (47 hours)	-
R3524/1926Link opens in a new window	1926	33	Male	James Banks & Sons	141, High Street, Perth	"Congenital mental defect"	15 shillings (48 hours)	"The worker has no intelligence. His mind is a blank and his brain does not function ..."
R8407/22Link opens in a new window	1922	41	Male	Jackson, McConnan & Temple Ltd.	405 Edge Lane, Liverpool	"Undersized and suffers from a large ingurnal hernia"	8 pence per hour	-
R8804/22Link opens in a new window	1922	22	Male	Hawkins & Tipson Ltd.	Hercules Works, Orchard Place, London, E14	"Nervous debility"	40 shillings (47 hours)	"…is constantly out owing to ill-health" "... has to support a widowed mother and an orphaned niece, aged five years ..." "…is not suffering from tuberculosis but has just returned home from an institution where he has been staying for several weeks…"
R6594/22Link opens in a new window	1922	24	Female	The Forth & Clyde Roperie Co.	Kirkcaldy	"Loss of left arm"	4 & 1/2 pence per hour	-
R12707/22Link opens in a new window	1922	71	Male	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Aberdeen	"Old Age"	46 shillings (47 hours)	-
R12709/22Link opens in a new window	1922	75	Male	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Aberdeen	"Old Age"	41 shillings (47 hours)	-
R12712/20Link opens in a new window	1922	63	Male	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Aberdeen	"Old Age and ill health"	41 shillings (47 hours)	-
R9111/22Link opens in a new window	1922	25	Male	William Smith & Son	Church Lane, Gomersal, near Leeds	"Lupus on thigh and leg"	20 shillings (46 hours)	"…is suffering from Lupus Erythematosus of Thigh and Leg (of many years standing)…"
R12760/20Link opens in a new window	1922	30	Female	Overton Bros.	Holme Church Lane, Beverley	"Partly dumb and very deaf"	6 pence per hour	"…is deaf and also has defective speech. Her mentality is of a low order…"
R1573/26Link opens in a new window	1926	69	Male	Wm. Edwards & Sons	St. Michaels Lane, Bridport	"Age"	7 pence per hour	Includes copies of letters from the worker
R3858/1926Link opens in a new window	1926	68	Male	Mr. J. M. Carter	Reliance Works, Kingsclere	"Age"	40 shillings (48 hours)	-
R5752/1924Link opens in a new window	1925	42	Male	G. Twyman & Son Ltd.	1, St. George's Place, Canterbury	"Very limited intelligence"	25 shillings (48 hours)	"... has a rooted objection to seeing a Doctor ..." "... has worked for the firm at odd jobs for about 30 years and the employers are very anxious that no obstacle should be put in the way of their giving him employment ..."
R3915/1925Link opens in a new window	1925	41	Male	Rendall & Coombs	Bridport	"Rheumatism"	6 & 1/2 pence per hour	"…He is diminutive … chronic rheumatism in the legs which makes him very slow in his movements and is not we think mentally normal. On one occasion thinking a woman with cross-eyes was laughing at him he struck her in the face and on another aimed a blow at our manager on being reprimanded ...". Currently unemployed "...the dole is at last at an end and nothing faces him and his wife but the workhouse if he does not speedily get something to do ...". To receive "a woman's wage" as "... many of our hands would do this work better and we know would resent his being paid more but as he lives in one of our cottages we can privately give him this free ..."
R1057/27Link opens in a new window	1927	26	Female	James Ross & Co. Ltd.	Restalrig Road, Leith	"Defective hearing and eyesight"	20 shillings (48 hours)	"…is deaf and blind in one eye …" "... is only able to do her present work because she has been years at it and understands the signs made to her by the worker with whom she is accustomed to work ..."
R1057/2/27Link opens in a new window	1927	32	Male	James Ross & Co. Ltd.	Restalrig Road, Leith	"Infantile paralysis"	18 shillings (48 hours)	"…he has the use of only one arm…" "... taken on by the firm at the request of his father who was then employed by them ..." (father since died) "... is undersized and looks half-witted though the firm say that he is fairly intelligent. He has the mentality of a child rather than a man of his years ..."
R3226/26Link opens in a new window	1927	58	Female	R. Hood Haggie & Son	Newcastle-on-Tyne	"Rheumatism"	20 shillings (46 & 1/2 hours)	"…She is badly crippled with Rheumatism, which appears to be of a chronic nature…"
R300/27Link opens in a new window	1927	38	Male	J. H. Mudford & Sons	11, Corn Exchange, Sheffield	"Bad eyesight (half blind) Physically weak, low mentality"	20 shillings (49 hours)	"… would be taking a great risk, if he were employed amongst machinery …" "... expressed a desire to be allowed to continue his work as he could not exist on what he made by selling Newspapers, and found great difficulty in getting suitable employment ..."
R3319/26Link opens in a new window	1927	25	Male	Mr. J. Caisley	30, Church Road, Tweedmouth	"Mentally deficient"	10 shillings (44 hours)	"... The worker was dismissed in December, 1926 ..."
821/1927Link opens in a new window	1927	45	Male	Mr. H. J. Hall	Freckleton, near Kirkham, Lancashire	"Mentally and physically defective"	14 shillings (48 hours)	"… the worker's brother and sister were both mentally defective and blind …"
R7255/22Link opens in a new window	1922	70 years 11 months	Male	F. Drake & Co.	North Coker Mills, near Yeovil	"Old age and general inefficiency"	10 shillings (35 hours)	-
R6298/22Link opens in a new window	1922	58	Male	J. T. Davis Ltd.	Coborn Road, Bow, E	"Sciatica and heart affection"	35 shillings (47 hours)	"... Prior to 1916, applicant was employed as coachman to the managing director but since such date, owing to severe illness, he has been employed in the stables and warehouse ..." "... The firm offered the worker 10s per week pension but this he refused as he stated he preferred working as at present ..."
R6299/22Link opens in a new window	1922	69	Male	J. T. Davis Ltd.	Coborn Road, Bow, E	"Infirm owing to age, and rheumatism"	10 pence per hour (48 hours)	"... in the event of a Permit not being granted the employers have decided to discharge the worker and to give him a pension of 10s per week which is their practice in connection with all workers of long service."
R5956/20Link opens in a new window	1922	32	Male	A. Thomson, Black & Co. Ltd.	Station Road, Skettleston	"Not of full mental development"	9 & 3/4 pence per hour	-
R14875/20Link opens in a new window	1922	59	Male	G. Oldfield & Sons	40, Kenton Road, South Hackney	"Age"	39 shillings & 2 pence (47 hours)	-
R671/20Link opens in a new window	1922	47	Male	J. Stephens & Son Ltd.	Ashfield, near Falmouth	"Scoliosis"	38 shillings (48 hours)	"…he has had scoliosis from childhood. In my opinion this should not debar him from still doing the work he tells me he has done for the last twenty years"
R10106/20Link opens in a new window	1922	24	Male	Halket & Adam	Union Place, Dundee	"Mentally deficient"	30 shillings per week	-
R6945/20Link opens in a new window	1922	22 & 1/2	Male	J. Morrison & Sons Ltd.	Marlborough	"Undersized, and dull"	18 shillings (48 hours)	"…Undersized, malformed chest, mentally dull, chest capacity very limited…"
R10292/21Link opens in a new window	1922	62	Female	J. & E. Wright Ltd.	Universe Rope & Twine Works, Birmingham	"Age"	18 shillings (48 hours)	Report furnished from a representative of "Mrs Calthrop's union" - "…The woman looks her full age - or even more - she is slow in her movements, and she has a continual running of blood from the nose…"
R6256/20Link opens in a new window	1922	46	Male	T. Tucker & Co.	Slape Mill, Bridport	"Physically and mentally unfit"	33 shillings & 6 pence per week	-
R300/27Link opens in a new window	1927	38	Male	J. H. Mudford & Sons	11, Corn Exchange, Sheffield	"Bad eyesight (half blind) Physically weak, low mentality"	20 shillings (49 hours)	"…suffering from defective vision…"
R601/27Link opens in a new window	1927	50	Female	Joseph Gundry & Co. Ltd.	Bridport	"Defective eyesight and physically unfit"	21 shillings (48 hours)	-
R602/27Link opens in a new window	1927	24	Male	Joseph Gundry & Co. Ltd.	Bridport	"Defective eyesight and mentally and physically unfit"	30 shillings (48 hours)	-
R1982/26Link opens in a new window	1927	63	Male	J. Gould & Son	West Coker, Yeovil, Somerset	"Constitutional slowness"	7 & 1/2 pence per hour	"…worker walked with difficulty…" (several letters re case reproduced)
R3319/26Link opens in a new window	1927	25	Male	Mr. J. Caisley	30, Church Road, Tweedmouth	"Mentally deficient"	10 shillings (44 hours)	"…is physically strong and active but mentally deficient. He reads and writes a little with difficulty and his speech at times becomes incoherent …" "… a sub-normal worker. He was very dull and had a sleepy and under-developed brain and fell asleep at his work. He had no initiative and an impediment in the speech and was probably suffering from spasmodic paralysis of the brain, and was also slightly crippled..." "... He told me that he did not like the work and would readily accept some other kind of work. When excited or taken by surprise he stammers ..." "... worth 25/- per week ...". Dismissed after permit not granted (includes copies of letters from worker's father)
R10733/22Link opens in a new window	1923	75	Male	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Aberdeen	"Old age and loss of thumb and right hand"	30 shillings (47 hours)	"…owing to an accident necessitating the amputation of the thumb of the right hand at the first joint…"
R9676/22Link opens in a new window	1923	42	Female	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Port Glasgow	"Mentally defective"	26 shillings (47 hours)	-
R9677/22Link opens in a new window	1923	38	Female	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Port Glasgow	"Mental deficiency"	25 shillings (47 hours)	-
R9646/22Link opens in a new window	1923	65	Female	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Port Glasgow	"Age, spinal curvature and Chronic Bronchitis"	26 shillings (47 hours)	-
R9587/22Link opens in a new window	1923	22	Male	Mr. H. Brady	Newhall Ropery, Woodbine Road, Sheffield	"Deaf and dumb, epilepsy"	19 shillings plus contributions 1 shilling & 2 pence Unemployment and National Health(44 hours)	"…worker is deaf and dumb and is subject to fits, of short and long duration, averaging 3 or 4 per month. He is also very childish in intellect: his mental capacity is very low…"
R2116/1927Link opens in a new window	1927	43	Male	Rendall & Coombs	Bridport	"Chronic rheumatism"	6 & 1/2 pence per hour	"…crippled with rheumatism … he is besides of uncertain temper ..." "... Besides his wages we give him his cottage free ..."
None statedLink opens in a new window	1927	72	Male	Wm. Marshall & Co.	Marine Place, Buckie	"Age and rheumatism"	20 shillings (48 hours)	"…I attended the worker for several years from rheumatism and chronic bronchitis…" "…unable to stand for any length of time…" "... has been working with us off and on ... since he stopped going to sea ..." "...When he applied for the pension and got it he came and informed us and said he considered he was not doing justice either to himself or us by accepting full wages..." Former fisherman
R522/25Link opens in a new window	1925	33	Male	W. J. Dawe & Co.	Millbrook Works, West Coker, Yeovil	"Epilepsy"	5 & 1/2 pence per hour (48 hours)	"…ex-Service man who was badly wounded in the war and has a plate in his skull: he suffered badly from epileptic fits…" "…gets flurried and upset and has been absent several days lately owing to not being up to the mark…" "... his sister is Mr. Dawe's housemaid and keeps an eye on her brother and is allowed to have him in the house and look after him when he is not fit ..." "... He is drawing a pension of 24/- per week..."
R3812/24Link opens in a new window	1925	43	Male	Joseph Gundry & Co. Ltd.	Bridport	"Defective eyesight"	34 shillings (48 hours)	-
R3811/24Link opens in a new window	1925	38	Male	Dixon, Corbitt & R.S. Newall & Co. Ltd.	Teams, Ropeworks, Gateshead-on-Tyne	"Wasted left arm"	37 shillings & 2 pence (47 hours)	"…I find an extensive healed scar, the result of a severe burn received about twenty three years ago, above, below and involving the left elbow joint. The upper arm is much wasted but the forearm is healthy and muscular…"
R2118/24Link opens in a new window	1925	26	Male	Halket & Adam	Union Place, Perth Road, Dundee	"Mental deficiency"	28 shillings & 6 pence (48 hours)	-
R523/25Link opens in a new window	1925	46	Male	John Stephens & Son Ltd.	Ashfield, near Falmouth	"Malformation of wrists and hands"	30 shillings (48 hours)	"…of very poor physique and of slow mentality, rate of intelligence low and movements clumsy, hands misshapen and clumsy…"
R527/25Link opens in a new window	1925	48	Male	John Stephens & Son Ltd.	Ashfield, near Falmouth	"Stunted growth, mentally slow and not physically fit for the work of an average man"	37 shillings (48 hours)	-
R3813/24Link opens in a new window	1925	50	Male	John Stephens & Son Ltd.	Ashfield, near Falmouth	"Scoliosis"	30 shillings (48 hours)	"…a very decided hunchback, undersized and delicate looking…"
SB5752/1924Link opens in a new window	1925	42	Male	G. Twyman & Son Ltd.	1, St. George's Place, Canterbury	"Very limited intelligence"	25 shillings (48 hours)	-
R2271/25Link opens in a new window	1925	56	Male	W. Edwards & Son	St. Michael's Net Works, Bridport	"General debility and mental deficiency"	27 shillings & 6 pence (48 hours)	-
R1777/1924Link opens in a new window	1925	44	Female	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Port Glasgow	"Feeble mentality"	23 shillings (47 hours)	"…mentally defective…"
R1778/24Link opens in a new window	1925	40	Female	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Port Glasgow	"Feeble mentality"	23 shillings (47 hours)	"…mental deficiency…"
R1091/24Link opens in a new window	1925	34	Male	Hutchison & Pollok Ltd.	182, Lodge Lane, Liverpool	"Lacking in intelligence"	18 shillings, 7 & 1/2 pence (47 hours)	-
R2270/1925Link opens in a new window	1925	49 & 1/2	Male	Burfield & Son Ltd.	South Road, Hailsham, Sussex	"Ankylosis of left hip"	35 shillings (48 hours)	"…suffering from ankylosis of the left hip. There is practically no movement at the joint…"
R2269/1925Link opens in a new window	1925	46	Male	Burfield & Son Ltd.	South Road, Hailsham, Sussex	"Tuberculosis of lungs"	38 shillings (48 hours)	"…suffering from old tuberculosis of lungs. There is no active disease but there is dullness over the right side in front down to fourth rib and at the apex behind, with faint breath sounds; there is therefore extensive old disease of the lungs…"
R4860/1927Link opens in a new window	1927	21	Male	Mr. T. Lever	Daubhill Ropery, Dean Church Lane, Bolton	"Mentally deficient"	14 shillings (48 hours)	"... The worker's father was interviewed. He was a man of some education and held a responsible position with the British Petroleum Co. Ltd. ... He said the youth was strong and healthy but was a bad mental case…"
R3848/1927Link opens in a new window	1927	69	Male	Mr. J. M. Carter	Reliance Works, Kingsclere	"Old Age"	40 shillings (48 hours)	-
R9254/22Link opens in a new window	1923	41	Male	J. Gundry & Co. Ltd.	Bridport, Dorset	"Defective eyesight"	38 shillings (48 hours)	-
R9255/22Link opens in a new window	1923	20	Male	J. Gundry & Co. Ltd.	Bridport, Dorset	"Very defective eyesight - almost blind"	26 shillings (48 hours)	-
R495/1923Link opens in a new window	1923	24	Male	J. Gundry & Co. Ltd.	Bridport, Dorset	"Loss of one arm"	32 shillings & 6 pence (48 hours)	-
R454/23Link opens in a new window	1923	66	Male	J. Gundry & Co. Ltd.	Bridport, Dorset	"Old age and very slow"	40 shillings (48 hours)	-
R9606/22Link opens in a new window	1923	57	Male	Hutchison & Pollok Ltd.	Lodge Lane, Liverpool	"Asthma and Bronchitis"	32 shillings (47 hours)	"… suffered from bronchitis and was an in patient from time to time in a hospital …"
R9839/22Link opens in a new window	1923	32	Male	Hutchison & Pollok Ltd.	Lodge Lane, Liverpool	"Lacking in intelligence"	18 shillings, 7 & 1/2 pence (47 hours)	-
R563/1923Link opens in a new window	1923	29	Male	Hounsells (Bridport) Ltd.	Bridport	"Mentally deficient"	32 shillings (48 hours)	-
R18489/21Link opens in a new window	1922	Over 70	Male	The Forth & Clyde Roperie Co.	Kirkcaldy	"Age"	11 & 1/2 pence per hour	-
R6741/20Link opens in a new window	1922	46	Male	John Stephens & Son Ltd.	Ashfield, Falmouth	"Scoliosis"	42 shillings (48 hours)	"…scoliosis from childhood…"
R5394/20Link opens in a new window	1922	69	Male	G. H. Smith & Co. Ltd.	Martock, Somerset	"Dilated heart and age"	40 shillings (48 hours)	"…owing to senility and dilated heart…"
R6251/20Link opens in a new window	1922	19	Male	J. Gundry & Co. Ltd.	Bridport	"Defective sight (nearly blind)	30 shillings (48 hours)	-
R6[--]8/20Link opens in a new window	1922	32	Male	J. Gundry & Co. Ltd.	Bridport	"Loss of two fingers of right hand"	50 shillings & 6 pence (48 hours)	-
R6250/20Link opens in a new window	1922	23	Male	J. Gundry & Co. Ltd.	Bridport	"Loss of one arm"	35 shillings & 3 pence (48 hours)	-
R6252/20Link opens in a new window	1922	40	Male	J. Gundry & Co. Ltd.	Bridport	"Defective sight"	44 shillings (48 hours)	-
R6238/20Link opens in a new window	1922	72	Male	W. Gale & Sons	Bridport	"Age"	7 pence per hour	-
R10767/20Link opens in a new window	1922	58	Male	Hutchison & Pollok Ltd.	Liverpool	"Only one arm, defective eye and short leg"	36 shillings & 6 pence (47 hours)	"…when a youth he had an accident in the rope walk which resulted in the severing of the left arm at the elbow, the loss of the two middle fingers of the right hand and the shortening of the left leg. In addition to these disabilities applicant had a cataract in the left eye..." "...he is suffering from chronic bronchitis, and the doctor is of the opinion that he will in all probability never be able to resume work..."
R10763/20Link opens in a new window	1922	55	Male	Hutchison & Pollok Ltd.	Liverpool	"Bronchitis and asthma"	2 pounds, 3 shillings & 6 pence per week (47 hours)	"... was an in-patient from time to time in a hospital ..." "... At the time of the officer's visit he was absent from work and when seen at his home appeared to be quite well enough to be at work and could not give any adequate reason for absence ..."
R10768/20Link opens in a new window	1922	30	Male	Hutchison & Pollok Ltd.	Liverpool	"Lack of intelligence"	1 pound & 3 shillings per week (47 hours)	-
R10764/20Link opens in a new window	1922	40	Male	Hutchison & Pollok Ltd.	Liverpool	"Malaria and consequent crippled condition"	2 pounds & 2 shillings per week (47 hours)	"…appeared to be in a poor condition. He was unable to control his limbs and if pressed at his work became almost useless…" "…the least deviation from the ordinary course of events sets up an acute tremor…"
R6256/20Link opens in a new window	1922	45	Male	T. Tucker & Co.	Bridport	"Mentally & physically unfit"	36 shillings (48 hours)	-
R8783/20Link opens in a new window	1922	41	Female	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Port Glasgow	"Mental deficiency"	26 shillings (47 hours)	-
R8780/20Link opens in a new window	1922	64	Female	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Port Glasgow	"Age, spinal curvature and Chronic Bronchitis"	26 shillings (47 hours)	-
R8790/20Link opens in a new window	1922	37	Female	The Gourock Ropework Co. Ltd.	Port Glasgow	"Mental deficiency"	25 shillings (47 hours)	-
R10757/22Link opens in a new window	1923	22	Male	Halket & Adam	4, Union Place, Perth Road, Dundee	"Only fit for light work"	28 shillings & 6 pence (48 hours)	-
R9606/22Link opens in a new window	1923	59	Male	Hutchison & Pollok Ltd.	182, Lodge Lane, Liverpool	"Asthma and Bronchitis"	32 shillings (47 hours)	"…suffered from bronchitis and was an in patient from time to time in a hospital…"
R9839/22Link opens in a new window	1923	34	Male	Hutchison & Pollok Ltd.	182, Lodge Lane, Liverpool	"Lacking in intelligence"	18 shillings, 7 & 1/2 pence (47 hours)	-
R10731/22Link opens in a new window	1923	30	Female	Overton Bros.	Holme Church Lane, Beverley	"Feeble minded: Defective speech"	22 shillings (48 hours)	-
R9722/22Link opens in a new window	1923	62	Female	Universe Rope & Twine Works	Birmingham	"Age"	16 shillings (47 hours)	-
R8123/22Link opens in a new window	1923	48	Male	Stephens & Sons Ltd.	Ashfield, Falmouth	"Scoliosis"	27 shillings & 6 pence (48 hours)	-
R4419/23Link opens in a new window	1923	56	Male	W. Edwards & Son	St. Michael's Works, Bridport	"Mental deficiency and disordered action of the heart"	25 shillings (48 hours)	-
R3985/23Link opens in a new window	1923	47	Male	J. Rowbottom Ltd.	Charlesworth, near Manchester	"Mentally deficient"	25 shillings (48 hours)	"…he could not give his name, address, age or experience…"
R3319/1926Link opens in a new window	1926	24	Male	Thomas Caisley	30, Church Road, Tweedmouth	"Mentally deficient"	10 shillings (44 hours)	"…is physically strong and active but mentally deficient. He reads and writes a little with difficulty and his speech at times becomes incoherent …" "… a sub-normal worker. He was very dull and had a sleepy and under-developed brain and fell asleep at his work. He had no initiative and an impediment in the speech and was probably suffering from spasmodic paralysis of the brain, and was also slightly crippled ..."
R3524/1926Link opens in a new window	1926	33	Male	Jas. Banks & Sons	141, High Street, Perth	"Congenital mental defect"	15 shillings (48 hours)	"... could not tell me his age, wages or how long he had been employed by the firm." "…he is mentally defective to a marked extent…"
R5373/1926Link opens in a new window	1926	39	Male	Jonathan Potts Ltd.	Burgess Street, Grimsby	"Mentally deficient and cripple"	12 shillings (47 hours)	"…a cripple and mental defective…" "…mental deficiency and partial paralysis of one of the legs…"