Recently revealed details of the 1911 census in the UK have revealed the way people through about health issues about a hundred years ago. The section relating to illnesses and infirmities offered showed an insight into how people through about health issues at that time. The responses to the questions in the survey were in bad taste, sexist or politically motivated, it has been found.

According to a record, people said they were suffering from illnesses like `old age' and `bald'. In the survey, the head of the family had to describe details of people's ailments on the night of Sunday April 2, 1911.

Most of the investigation of the survey was revealed in 2009. Only a column on the forms is not disclosed but it can be revealed now under data protection rules. Many people responded with words that are considered incredibly offensive in today's world.

The most common description in the infirmities column being lunatic, followed by feeble-minded and imbecile. Deaf and dumb and blind were the fourth and fifth most common descriptions in the survey. Most people were found to be responding with negative aspects about themselves instead of listing illnesses in the survey to the medical workers.