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Offline kristof

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Deciphering Doctor's Writing
« on: Wednesday 20 September 17 04:57 BST (UK) »
Hi guys, the ever challenging task of deciphering a doctor's scrawl. I can read part of it but there are words that I can't make out so can't get the full meaning. It would be lovely if some one could work out what it says.  :)
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Re: Deciphering Doctor's Writing
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 20 September 17 05:27 BST (UK) »
After having the worst handwriting at school three years running, I can actually read some of this.
Sounds like some kind of psychiatric or competency assessment.


Can answer questions, carry on conversation.  Takes an interest in his surroundings, understands time and place.  Good memory.  Gives a full account of what he has been/seen.

States that his father forged document to ???.  That he worked with police sergeant.  States that police have a down on him.

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Richardson, Sherman, Gillam, Hitchcock, Neighbour, Groom, Walton, Strange, Littleford, Brown, Guy, Abbs, Tasker, Bartlett, Farey, Etteridge

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Re: Deciphering Doctor's Writing
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 20 September 17 05:32 BST (UK) »
Brilliant!! That was so fast!! Thankyou

Yes, I've still got appalling handwriting but I just couldn't work out all the words, enough to make sense of it anyway. Yes, that one word you couldn't get - it's the crux of it, hopefully someone else can tease out the meaning of that squiggle.
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Re: Deciphering Doctor's Writing
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 20 September 17 06:06 BST (UK) »
part of the missing bit is "auditory hallucination"
Richardson, Sherman, Gillam, Hitchcock, Neighbour, Groom, Walton, Strange, Littleford, Brown, Guy, Abbs, Tasker, Bartlett, Farey, Etteridge

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Re: Deciphering Doctor's Writing
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 20 September 17 06:16 BST (UK) »
Yes, that would make sense. It's that bit about his father that really interests me but the scrawl is particularly bad just there!
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Re: Deciphering Doctor's Writing
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 20 September 17 07:31 BST (UK) »
senses auditory hallucination

end of last line) working in bank


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Re: Deciphering Doctor's Writing
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 20 September 17 13:43 BST (UK) »
Might it be "States that his father forged document to home" - that is, the home or institution at which this document originated?
Researching among others:
Bartle, Bilton, Bingley, Campbell, Craven, Emmott, Harcourt, Hirst, Kellet(t), Kennedy,
Meaburn, Mennile/Meynell, Metcalf(e), Palliser, Robinson, Rutter, Shipley, Stow, Wilkinson

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