THE DIVORCE COMMISSION.
MARRIED LUNATICS SHOULD BE DIVORCED. By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright. London, October 25. Giving evidence before the Royal Commission on Divorce, Dr. Clouston, lecturer on mental diseases at Edinburgh Univer«ty, urged that criminal lunatics should be divorced, also that where insanity ■was incurable the patient should be regarded as legally dead. Mr. Jones, Medical Superintendent of Claybury Asylum, was also emphatic in favor of the divorce of incurables and patients suffering from alcoholic insanity. There were seventy thousand married people confined in asylums.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 170, 27 October 1910, Page 5
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86THE DIVORCE COMMISSION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 170, 27 October 1910, Page 5
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