MENTAL PATIENTS
AS PUBLIC HOSPITAL INMATES, INDIGNATION AT REQUEST. (Per Prest Issociation — Copyright ) HAMILTON, September 14. Strong indignation was expressed by the Waikato Hospital Board today at the request of the superintendent of the Tokanui Mental Hospital that the Board should accept a number of inmates of the mental hospital. It was explained by Dr M. M. Hockin, the superintendent, that he had been informed by the Menal Hospital superintendent that his institution was overcrowded, and that he had been informed by the Director-General of Mental Hospitals that border-line cases should be sent to the Hospital Board. The Board decided to inform the Minister of Health and the DirectorGeneral that they would decline to accept inmates from Tokanui on the ground that the matter was one for the departhient and that the Board had no facilities or accommodation for them. The presence of such patients, it was considered, was likely to upset the general working of the hospital.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1933, Page 2
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158MENTAL PATIENTS Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1933, Page 2
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