In the new Mental Defectives Act, some attempt has been made to remedy the worst features of the existing system. After January 1 any such application for committal must be accompanied by two medical certificates before the patient can be removed from home. This would obviate the compulsory appearance in Court before a magistrate, an ordeal sufficiently severo to shake the sclf-dontrol of oven rational and normal people. But it should be pointed out that even under the new Act it will still be possible for individuals to make such applications, lor sell-interested 01 malicious reasons; while the new Act is worse than the 'old in this, that .ts “emergency procedure” allows the person "applying for tho committal of tho patient to obtain both tho medical certificates himself. In view of all this and of tho manifest dangers to personal liberty involved in the new Act, and so strongly emphasised in the recent controversy over it, Would it not be well for the Government to
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1929, Page 5
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165Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1929, Page 5
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