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4.67 Female, Single, 14 yrs and under, Maladjusted child, Stammering, September 1946

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/4

Scope and Contents

"This girl is a bad speaker,would not speak at all at school at first, very shy the others laugh at her. Will answer the teacher now but nobody else. Still cannot form her words properly and is terribly slow. She has attacked the other children with a stick and is considered a problem by the teacher. Also throws stones and fights. Chases her family about with a poker, which they think is funny. Steals. Illegitimate. Mother, 25, now married. Grandfather was a shepherd, now a farmer. Clean house, not overcrowded."

Aunt 4.66

Dates

  • Other: September 1946

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Extent

2 Sheets

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