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Types of Unsatisfactory Cases (Continued}. 



Remarks. 



There seems little to say about most of these records ; 

 they speak for themselves. 



With regard to Nos. 4, 5, 6, and 7, where the history is 

 not given, these girls left before 1896, the year when the 

 superintendent took charge of the school. It is not likely that 

 if recorded their previous history would have been better than 

 that of the average case. 



As to the doubtful cases : the father of No. 8 was a 

 suicide, and she herself was subject to fits ; the facts seem to 

 point to the probability of an inherited taint. This girl was 

 intelligent and superior ; she learnt typewriting, " and made 

 herself a neat and dainty home " ; finally, however, her health 

 failed, and she was unable to do much. It seems almost 

 callous to suggest with regard to a career that held so many 

 promising features, that here after all was one " of many 

 (cases) who, although they contribute materially to their own 



