INSANE IN NEW ZEALAND.
'* la# AJ.ARIUNG INCREASE. . By Telegraph—Press Association, ; Auckland, Last Night ' At the Medical Congress, Dr. W. £ .Join's Inspector General of Tti&yi for' Victol i,t, quoted figures hhowiagr, th» ),ipid muease of insanity in New Zealand. The proportion was one in' 4T9 is the year 1877. In 1012 it was pne in2Bo. Among the principal causes, thiM. showed out promincntlv. , InbiOrilflflfle <nt insanity and its allied neurosis, syphil; lis ami alcoholism. He snok/s stronjjljr of the importance of dealing with th* early ;fctag«3 in some waydifferenfi.ronj' the present method of committing. Wy sons to asylums where chronic «mm.U«'> detained, lie advocated a special miaf where 'voluntary cases' could '• be M 9& without the painful process pLrnptieaJKi being uVclared insane by certificate.". "$$ The Congress pamed a resolution these lines. ' r*
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 194, 14 February 1914, Page 5
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131INSANE IN NEW ZEALAND. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 194, 14 February 1914, Page 5
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