MENTAL PATIENTS.
MALE-WAY HOUSES URGED. At I lie rale at which insanity is increasing there will not he ' m the m-i far future enough satie people to look alter the insane," declared -Mr A; more in the House to-day. lie characterised insanity as the greatest menace of the world to-day. and said there seemed to he something wrong with our civilisation that was having a trimental elfect noon humanity. The present rate of increase in New Zealand was alarming.
A! i- Savage said that for years he h;»,| I'clt thill our mein ill instil litmus uoro nr,l everything they should be. Our aim seemed to be largely to keep the menially alllivled away from the ~[• ,l u . pul, lie rather than their t real meal. Ii was generally agreed by medical men that there should lie something in the nature of half-way houses, lie had previously been informed by the Minister of Health that he was not („ favour of a Royal Commission going hit,, the status of mental institutions. Il,,„ (’. ,|. Harr: Without definite charges. Mr Savage: f think about- throe years ago definite charges wore made regarding Avondale, and 1 think I have a Ton, u t.r sent by Dr Heat tie, which ts not wholly an admission Imt partly a.admission that some of the charges wore well founded. That is quite- a h;n,r time ago and they have not improved anything. Sir Maui Pomnre. Minister of llmdih, said there were hundreds of olficial 'visitors to the institution. They aero praolieally open to the public, and if anything was wrong the department learned about it immediately. If there were half-way houses everybody who bad relatives who were menially affected would want to send them there, and we would want a half-way house the size of all the other institutions | put together. ' Mr At move : You would want a qttar- | >jr Mauri Pomnre: T think the preI sent system is best. | The Minister added that the volunj tary section ot the institution was coni siilered sufficient, and that 9A per cent tof voltiutai'v patients lett cured.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1923, Page 3
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