The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1915. A HUMANE MEASURE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5, 4 September 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1915. A HUMANE MEASURE.

Action is being taken by the Victorian Government to provide for special treatment of soldiers mentally afflicted by the war. A bill introduced in the State Parliament follows the lines of recent English legislation, so that men may he treated in their own homes under the best advice, or, if it is necessary for them to be.sent to a public 1 institution, they shall be kept separate from the rest of the inmates, say s the Sydney Daily Telegraph. As the Defence Department is in unison with the plan, and will be responsible for the cost, it is to he assumed that similar legislation will be adopted in New South Wales and other States. That these steps should be taken is only another instance of the immense advance which has been made in the humane consideration extended to men who have returned from the front. Time was ivhou the soldier back from the Mars was allowed to shift for himself, to develop into the victim of occasional and degrading charity, or the persistent and unfortunate application for employment for which he had become physically unfitted. No more pathetic sight is posd* bio iliMi n man , who has rendered magnificent -service to his country in fighting to preserve its ifntion.nl integrity being thrown upon the world in this Way. As a member of the Victorian Assembly remarked, nothing is too good for the men who have F'.maht for Australia and the Empire in Europe, and have returned afflicted by the worst calamity that can befall (ho human species. MecVcal specialists, happily, consider that a large percentage of these cases are curable. Hut in the convalescent stages the utmost attention that medical skill can give they are entitled to. and the Victorian Government is to be congratulated on being the first in the States to recognise the fact and provide the means.