Frequent attention has been directed by Dr. Jones, Inspector-General of In-, sano Asylums in Victoria, to the disproportionate number of lunacy cases, compared to the population, occurring among now arrivals from Europe.s He attributes this to the change of environment and comparative loneliness experienced by immigrants. In the United States of America alienists havo reported a steadily increasing number of mental collapses among new settlers. During 1912 the Victorian Lunacy Department dealt with 60 cases'' of ■ insanity, amongst immigrants, and this year rather moro than that number ■ have found their way into the asylums,-' A stricter supervision of immigrants on their arrival has been ordered, with a view to detecting any signs of a'mental breakdown, and shipping tho""patients' homo again. Recently three new arrivals, who were found to bo of unsound mind, w-ero sent bach to Engknd..i.A- j;'
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1954, 10 January 1914, Page 6
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138Untitled Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1954, 10 January 1914, Page 6
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