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ONE IN EVERY 250 POPULATION OF AUSTRALIA Oue person is every 2.50 of the population of Australia was insane, Dr. Idris Morgan, of Newcastle, told the 35th annual conference of New South Wales Health Inspectors. Twenty per cent, of the population suffered some kind of mental illness, he said, in emphasising that mental ailments were increasing at an alarming rate. The causes were fear, anxiety, excessive fatigue and feelings of frustration and inferiority. Many of Australia’s best men in all walks of life died before their time, or were compelled to become inactive for long periods in a process of recovery, Australians, as a community, refused to study these matters and take them into account in their system of economy.
In a mad whirl of mechanisation and speed, Australians were slowly but surely destroying their birthright—health.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 68, 3 January 1947, Page 4
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138MENTALLY AFFLICTED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 68, 3 January 1947, Page 4
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