NATIONALITY OF MENTAL PATIENTS.
STATISTICS PRESENTED TC
HOUSE,
Some statistics relating to the nationality of patients in mental hospitals are contained in a return tabled in the House yesterday on the motion of Afr. P. Fraser (Wellington Central). It is revealed that of 8,089 persons of non-British nationality in New Zealand, 211 are permanent mental hospital patients. 'The return also shows • that of 19,138 fo-reign-born New Zealand residents, 208 are permanently confined in mental hospitals. There are 4604 British- born permanent patients (excluding Indians) of the total British population of 1,381,214. There are ’7 'Asiatics, of the total population of oyer 5000. x Thus, it will be seen there are 429 patients of foreign birth in our mental hospitals, as against 2948 patients of New Zealand birth. Subtracting the total of New Zealanders from the total British-born patients, it is shown that 1658 (including two Indians) are British patients bom overseas.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3999, 19 September 1929, Page 2
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151NATIONALITY OF MENTAL PATIENTS. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3999, 19 September 1929, Page 2
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