N.Z. MENTAL HOSPITALS
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— Many Improvements Urged CONSIDERATION PROMISED
(By Telegraph-
! WELLINGTON, Last Night. ( 'Every representatiqn will be inquired intoi You have put before us a very large programme, Most of it is very desirable. I cannot agree with everything urged, but the bulk of the matters are worthy of consideration," said the Minister of Mental Hosiptals, Hon. P. Fraser, replying to representations on the mental hospital system made by a deputation from the Women's Service Guild to-day. Among the proposals to the Minister was that a board of five be set up to act as a certifying board, that provision be made in all public hospitals and convalescent homes i'or observation wards for mental patients, that the Government be asked to set up a commission to inquire into the mental hospital system. ' 'We should look upon mental illness in the same way as physical illness," the Minister said. "It seems to ine that we will have to have a new outlook. The utmost co-operation between mental hospitals and public hospitals is desirable." Ho added that in many of their features the mental hospitals in New Zealand were as good as anything in the world.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 25, 22 October 1937, Page 10
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