MENTAL PATIENTS.
ABOUT 5000 IN NEW ZEALAND. “It is to me an appalling fact, ’ says the Hon. W. H. Triggs, “ that in this young country, naturally perhaps the healthiest in the world, where the conditions of life are easy and with a population of only a million and a quarter, there are aboat five thosand patients on the registers of the mental hospitals, and thepe are upwards of 800 fresh cases every year. Suppose you could see those 800 unfortunates in procession on their way to the hospital gates—little children with inherited insanity, poor girls, mental deficients unable Jo control themselves, epileptics, general paralytics, melancholics bent on suicide, maniacs, with the violent fit upon them, and, saddest of all, old men and women who have, many of them, dore good service to the State in their day, but have lived too long and are now suffering from senile decay, and are mentally and physically helpless. If you could see this ghastly procession, would it not get on your ne’ ves ? Would you not cry out,, ’ln God’s name, is this to go on for ever ? Can nothing be done ito .stop it ?
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4604, 21 September 1923, Page 1
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192MENTAL PATIENTS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4604, 21 September 1923, Page 1
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