“Sane man wrongly locked up’
NZPA-Reuter Chicago A lawsuit filed in Chicago seeking SUSSM in damages for a Chinese man said he was kept in mental institutions for 28 years because doctors could not communicate w’ith him. The suit charged that a succession of mental hospitals did not bother to get an interpreter to find out what was wrong with the patient, who spoke a dialect mainly used by Chinese immigrants in the Chicago area. The Cook County public guardian (Mr Patrick Murphy) said in the suit filed in a Federal Court that the patient, identified only as David T., in his 50s, was never treated for any mental illness.
The suit charged that the man, who came to the United States from China in 1949 and was committed to a mental hospital in June, 1950, was wrongfully incarcerated as he was not a dangerous or retarded person.
Mr Murphy said that when the patient was given a chance to talk to workers at a Chinese restaurant last November, they said he was of at least average intelligence.
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Press, 20 April 1979, Page 5
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