MENTAL DEFICIENTS
HEAVY INCREASE IN BRITAIN A CAUSE FOR ANXIETY (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 1 p.m. LONDON, Wednesday. Neville Chamberlain, presenting the Health Estimates, said there were now 300,000 mental deficients in the country, about double the Royal Commission’s estimate in 1908. This was a cause for anxiety and apprehension. Out of that number only one-tenth were definitely deficient, therefore sterilisation would not be a satisfactory solution. The ideal method of treatment was in settlements of 1,000, where deficients would be trained till they were fit to be released. But this was very costly. Last year’s infantile and tuberculosis death rates were the lowest recorded. CANCER INCREASING Mr. Chamberlain stated that the growing figures of mild smallpox in the past few years showed that as long as a large part of the population was not vaccinated there was a risk of a panic if a virulent type broke out. Cancer cases were increasing, but radium treatment was proving singularly successful now, and quite superseded the older methods of surgery. The need of radium was very pressing and urgent.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 652, 2 May 1929, Page 9
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180MENTAL DEFICIENTS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 652, 2 May 1929, Page 9
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