MENTAL ASYLUMS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 191, 11 February 1914, Page 5

MENTAL ASYLUMS.

TREATMENT ON MODERN UStS. BORDERLINE By Telegraph—Press Association! ?-J9 Auckland, Lni»t Nielli MtEKm In the psychological medicine eurology section of the Medical vnfrvfß £ress, the presidential address of JDiVH Cbisholni Ross was read by Dr. Ofl*irij|H frey, of the Hospital for Insane (MaH'IlH bourne). The address reviewed tk*'JsH progress, made in the treatment of tnl disorders during the last 30 ytjlh'tJygfl Dr. Ross contrasted the conditions be started asylum work in 1884 wßnflH the methods' and appliances of the grljilMi sent day, illustrating the imtMDfllaH strides made rn-thc matter of tration and treatment within that perre|f|| od. He laid especial emphasis on Mljiigfl value of efficient staffing, and out the. great improvement that-juriraß taken place in our mental hospital* I**lßl Uiii respect. In the old days a for the detention of the insane m'|tfb*]9 asylum in the simplest acceptation?' <£ jjjg||| tbe term, whereas mental hospitals now subdivided into numerous deibrt\>l||>l ments. A particularly important fe*HW*/?i|||S of these institutions wa» the ment of receiving houses for the servation of borderline cases. . ']s!« The president, in summing up 'W -'gul situation, compared tbe work andtfa~&;~||B on mental disorders in Australasia tbe methods in other countries, aMpaBB contended that the mental hospitals <"4 : Wt Australia compared very favorably to' «■ day with those of Bngland and tbe Qtfjto fflm tinent of' Europe. ' "\, J3H A psychological paper of deep inteTfif "AS to the profession was read by Dr« Afl" Jjjt?M drew Davidson, on "The universal, cognition by medical schools of nMfedfe»feJ ogy and mental disorders as a sory subject." The subject Was 4<<4f|JHfl with along necessarily technical but claims wide interest as Uluitntj£li(gi9H tbe increasing hold which the nl'rdiwftjjßH gical nspect9 obtaining -among medicine in their combat with and nervous disorders. ;^<HiH