Our Lunatic Asylums.
+- — •. . In bis report on the Lunatic Asylums, laid on the tabla of the House, Dr MacGregor enters his annual vigorous protest against the shameful overcrowding necessitated by the lack of accommodation available in our asylums. In tabulated form he shows that there arc 248 patients in the asylums now beyond i the number for which accommodation is provided, and even after completing work now in hand with a view to providing further accommodation, the number of patients in exeei of the statutory requirements will be 168. The evils arising out of this state of affairs are plainly and forcibly told. "At Seacliff during the year," writes Dr MacGregor, •' we have had a terrifying experience of the evils of overcrowding. During an epidemic of septic pneumonia ten persons died, and, in the words of Dr King, ' their deaths must be attributed to the overcrowded state of the asylum."' Again, "If our Parliament would escape the charge of in* human apathy in the treatment of the mentally diseased, they must at once insist On sufficient accommodation in our asylums, and as soon as possible thereafter they will make separate provision for the criminal insane and for idiots and imbeciles."
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Manawatu Herald, 12 July 1898, Page 2
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200Our Lunatic Asylums. Manawatu Herald, 12 July 1898, Page 2
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