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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST · 1932.

Last in, the Case Book of Dr Firth

World Copyright. Dy arrangement with Daily Herald.

THE CLINIC FOR

PROBLEM CHILDREN

FOR many years wonder-

ful work in dealing with problem children ha been done by a woman whose genius in famous to international Experis Jet who is almost un- known to the world at large because the shuns. publicity.

She 13 Slater Marie Wilds. of Notre Dame Child Guldance Clinle, Ja Glasgow, Scotland, which she ploueered nearly 30 years ago.

The clinic treats children of all classes and creeds and remarkable success is due to a combination of homan insight and science. The key to the problem of preventing much of the nervous disorder and mon- Lal

fincas now so common adult life les in such treatment of dimcult

children.

This

vitally important work ia of fascinating human Interest, as will be seen in this series which deals with some of the cases treated at the elinle.

'HEN he arrived at

TWO CASES: THE BOY WITH.

A STUTTER, AND THE BOY

WHO HATED HIS MOTHER

(By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

ARSON IN THE HOODOO YACHT

By Ken Compston

Barenrolle

ONG. before the white elephant, a ghost of her

£100,000 luxury yacht former gidry.

› Derek Clayton-Wright became WAB worried. When he bought the burned out as she lay in her yacht in Durban he had insured Southampton berth, seamen her for 14,000 in August he had christened her "The October to £52,000. In the New raised $t to £20,000, and in Hoodoo Ship."

- Year, 1949, he reduced the cover to £30,000, but a month later

Built originally for the lifted it to 35,000. Archduke Ferdinand of

On March 1, 1948, the ybung Austria, for years she had owner made one of his visits to been the pride of the the yacht and stayed aboard an | Mediterranean, the treasure hour. The night watchman had been withdrawri a ehort time toy of American mil- before, and early the following lionaires.

morning the dockyard watch- man was attracted by the smell of burning cellulold near the "Barcarolie."

When Dr Firth was call- ed to examine her on March the 14th, 1988, much of the Smoke seemed to be coming ship had been destroyed by from the fore and aft parts of fire.

the ship and there was a red The highly-polished glow through a starboard port- teak and elaborate

hole of the lower deck, mahogany panels of the staterooms, where states- men and society folk on both sides of the Atlantic teams of firemen brought the

Only strenuous had danced at colourful blaze under control, and when parties, had gone up in Dr Firth was talled polles, are officials and insurance assessors had made their preliminary investigations.

flames.

Dr. Firth had made the two hundred and any mile journey from. Lancashire to Hampshire to help the Southampton police solve the mystery of how the fire, which had swept the sleek craft from stem to stern, had been started.

efforts by

two

Back in Preston, the doctor began to reconstruct the case of The Blazing Yacht,” es it be- came known)" ·

The fire started in places widely apart fore and aft," he reported later to the Southampton police. "They were of equal intensity."

Accompanied by C. 1. D.

At Winchester Assizes in July, chiefs, he spent many hours 48, Dr Firth told the judge searching among the debris in and Jury that the Barcarolle" the lower and upper decks, WAS a "cold, dead ship" and then, werd. Hai added that the fire was mainly which even soaked with water from fire in the alhrboard side involving men's roses as they had put the owner's accommodation out the dying embers of the are a fortnight before.

was

a

of

the power and upper decks for ward and in the owner's accom- modation and dining room aft and centre.

to

was inhibited from behaving as violent, aggressive, and a thief, which he could net the part of he gave in detail to Mr nf the companionwoy had been

a normal boy wants to behave,

At school this emerged after several visits to the clinic-he found that a lot was expected

of him, because of the record of his father and brother,

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A speech defect of this kind is not physical, but is due to same hidden fear or emotional disturbance. in this case medical check showed nothing

Nor was the wrong. duc to duplay

test

telligence average.

Gattan for

1

A boy apparently afflicted with the villain, shooting,

a vicious hatred of his mother, and hitting. untouched by

sympathy and

It was the condition of the companionway down which ho

Going below decks on his visit went below deck that gave the doctor his first clue that here

the yacht Dr Firth had Four noticed that the treads of the case of arson. later, months

at Winchester stairs were undamaged by the homes, though the vertical part Assizes, stabbing

Justice Humphreys the

dis burned. coverits which led him to be-

In the witness box he told the jury that "are travelled love that a young Bournemouth

upwards, and there was no company director had set fire to a few weeks

taneous cause. previously had been insured for vidence of electrical or spon- £35,000.

"A dropped, cigarette. could The log book of the "Bar have caused the fire only under carolle" read like a romance of very favourable circumstances the seas. Three years after he and by coming in contact with had had the yacht built speciat very inflammable malefial." ly for him.

the

Archduke Ferdinand, of Austria was

Later he was given Jessons at unaffected by discipline. Cer- the clinic and coaching at home. tainly one of the toughest cases To begin with, each lesson was the Notre Dame Child Guldance the excuse for an extuusting the yacht which Clinic in Glasgow has had to outburst, which was greeted

with patience and deal with.

Armness, He was of a good

Little by little he began to calm family. with wealthy connections. Un- down and make progress, happily Alls molher Was alcoholle, tragic burden on who was the boy's father, therefore unable to do to

+

an

TOUCHING

T the end of that month he

.

assassinated at Sarajevo in an

proved the boy to have in reforma la bon. The boy's con--A was accepted as a pupli in a

woll above the

duot

the home and out of it, private school, 'run by a woman incident that precipitated World in

Dr Firth added: "In my view If he hadn't prepared

his at last breathe to outrageous who was prepared to treat him War 1. Then she was named the

the fire started about an hour reading lesson, he stuttered that the clinic was asked if with understanding. He still "Vendura." next day when he was

before it was disboded, buy eslæti

slot anything pould be done." visited the clinic regularly, and

Her next owner was American there are many ways of start- His home was too far away after a ume, as he got to know to read in class. The

teacher for him

bunkér to attend the clinic the staff, his defences were millionaire passed him

Anthony ing a fire by denyed action." over, and his in-

after spending Clayton-Weight denied

that ability to read was set down to from it; so a home had to be lowered lightly; and en inter Drexall, who,

elaborate he had fired the

and ship his stutter: in fact, consciously found for him in Glasgow. This ceting and touching fact emerged nearly £100,000 on the door of the

or not, it became a protection task was undertaken by the which changed the whole aspect Bitings to the ship, could seldom ridiculed the suggestion of the. speech therapist's against the harsh side of life, clinic's social worker, and a of his case,

bring himself to go aboard her. prosecution that shortly before he had offered in seriousness room In the He did badly, and he was put daunting task it was.

hale bày dành

£5,000 -to

public-house Notre Dame

Foster parents, even for an or Child Guld- back a year!

have to be the saltof mother at all, Instead, he loved

acquaintance if he set fire dinary child, ance Clinic, he stood for a

the earth, ready to make her with the blind adoration of At the outbreak of World War the vessel. noment and struggled pain- CIGNIFICANTLY, the speech sacrifice of time and patience to a child; and it was this love that

aren," was taken over by the Bri- it has was at the root of his revolt. fully to speak a chubby,

give the child the love Vierapist found that he spone missed. But who would who weakness had been thrust on his her no figurehead and home a The effects of her tragic tish Navy. She was stripped of healthy boy of eight with perfcelly well when ho was

pared discussing something of interest, mot no better than a vidfont notice. He must have witnessed patrol vessel at Gibraltor.

a taice on boy a truly alarming stutter.

W

REPRESSED

to

The

his

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In a hushed court, after the fury had been out an hour and a half, Mr Justice Humphreys sentenced him to three years' It came upon him at Intervals. to him. He stuttered when he ifttle crimaal?

appalling to

scenes of hysteria and

penal servitude for maliciously V.E. Day brought her patrols to setting fire to the ship, starting His throat seemed to constrict, talked about the school or his

By great good fortune on self-condemnation. He had got

intent to pre- his face twitched and reddened, mother, but not when he talked ideal foster-mother was found it into his head that his mother an end and later, now in her the fire with

sombre battle grey, she steamed judice the about

His speech And legs moved

his father.

school teacher

and and that she was into port wicked,

underwriters, deep was

doomed this was how he put violently; but the

attempting to obtain money by were seemed to have their root in words completely blocked, When at some kind of repressed emotion psychological insight,

The boy was unable to do the ide go to hell. That being so, In 1947 Derek Clayton-Wright, false pretences. last they did come, they escaped The final diagnosis was that

school nwark of a

three he had no desire to go to heaven son of a well-known Midlands Three months Inter the case child his trouble in an almost unintelligible

apparent

His wickedness and apparent family, having just sold his came before Lord Goddard, the HL mother, in a talk with the laziness induced by fear; and years younger, He couldn't read alousness were part of a cam-interest in an hotel for £20,000, Lord Chief Justice, in the Court speech therapist, explained that on this diagnosis his treatment

his

arme

Tuah.

he began to stutter shortly after he started to talk. It was ac- companied by bed-wetting and nail-biting. He was attending good school, but was doing so badly that the headmaster had

was based.

was

First of all, his mother was encouraged to give him more freedom. At the clinic, he was

with

given tuition in forming sounds, DESTRUCTIVE,

and at the same Alme was

her for her trouble.

told her he would have to leave coached in his school work to THE doctor's report summed ble new idro, once he had become the elaborate setting of matter”

unless his work improved.

BACKGROUND

THE boy, on his early visits to Thodi on

Then the headmastir

*that

clinic re- SACRIFICE

arosc

or write a constructive sculence; he couldn't count. Yet he was palen to quality to go to hell new to Durban and, for £10,000 of Appeal.

with her.

(sixteen thousand pounds), pur- physically sound, and mentally

After the evidence had been chased the former luxury yacht. reviewed, above the average, as standard This discovery, was the first

Clayton Wright's toda provod.

big step towards his cure, I was Just then film chiels were plan- appeal was dismissed, and Lord Jinpressed on him that his ring the film, 'The Blue Lagoon," Goddard, announcing the de- mother wasn't wicked, but that and, to thom, the "Barcarolle" cision, said: "Dr Firth, is known she was Ill; that God wouldn't seemed the ideal craft to sail the to this court as a person of bring him up to the standard him up as a potential psycho-

blue waters of the Bahamas to highest repute in this sort of expected of a child of his age path-the type of person

who been persuaded to accept it, re- the film..

It was one of the greatest and Intelligence.

tributes can't be reached by any appeal moved the root cause of his anti-

ever paid by a Lord and Difficulties was to the emotions, and is devoid social conduct. It was now

the Chief Justice to a witness. asked, and agreed, to put him of feeling for anybody; the but him to overcome the bad habits (35-year-old ship was becoming a targety a matter of helping project fell through. Now, the

(THE END) who makes the most dangerous of relaxation, playing with other The theory was that his stat criminal. His hatred of: hk he had acquireil.. chlidren uni he began to feel ter had kept him back at school, mother seemed to support at case, relaxation and play and that being kept back had diagnosis; but the therapy being part of the speech made him lose interest in his served judgment,

·untli work. He wouldn't. try therapy technique,

By now the speech therapist challenge his mind.

he got something to

For a month he attended the CIX months after entering

S clinle daily, spending most at the clinic ho hod progressed know his background.

What feller, serving in the Army what

hits time in the lower playroom, enough to be sent to a boarding This is a room

with school, where he had been

was ablo equipped (for this was during the war soon began to make proptes at

bbaths that can be Allod wth x normally with other boys, water and wet sand, whe

whi and did reasonably well in his given school. He was me school, and difficult books to read, and was things can be hammer, bon visited his parents occasionally, stutiles, Tho *ocini worker hud doile brilliantly, His

encouraged to talk about thened, broken und knocked about giving them advice which would mother had been a school

In the evenings hits foster teacher before her marriage,

After a yiur and a half's at dendance at the clinic he was mother had to be with him co help them when their son ame When he began to talk as a

tons home for his holidays. stantly. On the

Occasions child, he had one or two de well on the way to completo when he was luft alone in the The tragedy of his parents tretive

sounds"free" for confidence in himself.

house

dalle was perhaps beyond solution. Finally the boy who had ap- of the drawing-room carpet, the

he it a fire in the middle. But at least the boy, thanks to for example. These peared to be dull and unintelit- fairly normal' In young eldiren ard

gent went on--with no trace of turned on the top in the bath the clinic at the almost in tusunfly · ·cORTOCÊ themselves But his mother a stutter to do well at high after plugging the basit credible sherifice of his foster mother, had been inved from so that the bout wes Hooded. made the mistake of trying to school and university..

He was a destructive devil: its influched, and from liv CASE NO. 2 ct them too early and too.

end this Trat worth his tras life of viciousness that had ment was

his venue gerond to do ahead of him. yentor kill boope. At home the

and his elder brother hint atë

tended the same

After

hap forescen

do to

Exactly

He

fairly

Ito wali very much a mother's A DEAD-END 3d if ve

two

bay,' fused over and seldom out fa there was the, a boy bi teh daster another target lip is back!

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