FEWER LUNATICS.
MOKE WORK AND HIGHER PAY. Higher wages and lire almost total disappearance of unemployment, Avith tire consequent removal of domes tie worry, arc reasons-ascribed for tire continued decrease in hrsanity in Scotland, in normal times th is was a fruit ful cause. The. report just issued Iry the General Board of Control states that there, were at the end of last year 17,7(35 insane persons in Scotland, as against 18,326 the previous year, and states that the marked decrease of insanity among men was associated to some extent with military .sen-ice, which teas gradually withdrawing more men from civil life. Increased old age pensions, it states, have probably had-some effect in retarding senile' insanity of mild types.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2043, 18 October 1919, Page 4
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119FEWER LUNATICS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2043, 18 October 1919, Page 4
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