MENTAL HOSPITALS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1925, Page 4

MENTAL HOSPITALS

COMPLETE RK-ORCAXISATK »X WKLUXOTOX, -May ■). “There is ;i i•' nil jl l ft e reorgamsal ion going mi in iiie menial hospital* system." declared Sir .Maui I’umare. when his attention was tailed lu siatements of a sensational charaet ■:;• regarding the system published in Auckland. “The reorganisation." added the .Minister in charge of the department. "inis been going mi for several months, and 1 have not bei n able to make a general statement to the juiblic, because it is nut (umplet". f am awaiting lie return of Sir Trui-y King from the South Island, where he is attending to one phase ot tin' limit- r. hefure making my anmnuicenicnt of the altered puliey. Sunie change, ■: stall have already taken place in a•■con la nee with the-v plans.” Sir Maui declined to outline the proposal-. though lie indicaied in a neral way that they are thoroughly comprehensive am! aliVct m i "iil\ Avondale Mental Hospital. hui all similar institutions in the Dominion. Apparently the H-liome involve* a eiwplcie change of policy in regard to the treatment of many classes ot menially afflicted patients, and the hum availed improvement in classification. As for published statemeuis, toe Minister remarked: “! am not worrying about sensational statements or scare litre- in the press, bccum— this din’s not do mud. good. lie ret ala has to cuiiic from within, ami ii will he of a most romprehtn ive am! orestie character. We have been at ii '"S' several mouths, ami 1 have vi-iic' 1 ah i|m menial hospitals v, ii h Sir 1 I'tibv King in the course of the planning oi the reforms.

X£W DISEASE ml ;;.r„. The -'British .Medical ..Journal "calls the attention of physicians and laboratory workers to a new treatment for various di-eases devised by l)r Ilcrhiri \V. Not;, of kittle Susan, Birkenhead. Ji c.nsist,- <f manga ne.se in con-;jttn.-linn with thyroid extract, the manganese being given in the form cf injections cf permc.ngami.te oi pnt\’e;*y ri i,: irkuble cures are reported in ;he .Journal by Dr Notts who gives ~ .. i • ■ :, - 11 : tv . f tv-lllis obtained by .To duct'.rs using the meiliod in 227 eases Of ~5 -es of chn.nic rh-mnatoir nrthrtVs gout, angina j sec; oris, hi. Vitus' dame and goitre. Of 0:1 cases of chronic rheumaioic anhri; i- eight were cured and fourteen relieved. Similar results were Mriigam --• witicli is n.-einial to life, is pr: wit i.i fruits. j.Tr'li vegetables, and cereals, hut while the hratl of wlieat ~ n'.am- a large amount, there i , mum in white flour. \ i-’r -ti. -i ph'- .-i inn dealing with wotiklv children found that v. hen liuvnc was administered some of them rapidly increased in health and weight