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When Smiths was founded three years ago as the juvenile annex of Borocourt (mental) Hospital, its regular staff was soon plagued with a familiar problem. Ten skilled (and overworked) nurses were unable to get really close to the hospital's 40 seriously disturbed children. Said Borocourt's physician-superintendent, Dr. Gerald O'Gorman: "If we're very lucky, we may get the children to form an attachment to an animal-but what is vitally needed is relationship with a human being...
Into Maggie's Arms. Last year Dr. O'Gorman got an odd idea, hesitated ("It did seem a bit cracked"), finally went ahead. To create human relationships for the children, he called on 20 of Borocourt's higher-grade mentally defective young women. He allowed each to act as a Big Sister to two Smiths children, told them to cuddle their charges (under nurses' supervision) as much as they wanted. They promptly worked wonders...
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