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Handicaps - Mental Deficiency (Code 26). Sterilization. Segregation. Incidence. Correspondence...
Catalogue reference: ED 50/124
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This record is about the Handicaps - Mental Deficiency (Code 26). Sterilization. Segregation. Incidence. Correspondence... dating from 1929-1935 in the series Board of Education and successors: Medical Branch and successors: Special Services,.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- ED 50/124
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1929-1935
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Description (What the record is about)
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Handicaps - Mental Deficiency (Code 26). Sterilization. Segregation. Incidence. Correspondence regarding report of Joint Mental Deficiency Committee; appointment of Office Committee and report.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- M.602
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Mental illness
- Education
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3598149/
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