SOLDIER MENTAL PATIENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1919, Page 5

SOLDIER MENTAL PATIENTS.

Dr. Hay, Ynspeetor-General of Mental! Hospital*, reporting on the work of liiaj Department with l'aspect to soldiers fromj the beginning of tiie war to the Ist! September, IUIS, states:—We have dealt] with two classes—those who could be I troated without being placed under re- j caption orders, being held as voluntary patients or as military patients, and accommodated, with few executions, either at the Ansae Hospital, Karitane (near Seaclilf), or at the Wolfe Home, Auckland; and those whose condition' was such that t,hcy could not bo pro-' perly treated outside a mental hospital, and were admitted under magistrates' order. Some of the patients in the first group were on the borderline of tl:c second, and those who passed beyond that line lad to be placed udder reseptipn order and taken to a mental hospital, both for their own ™ood and the of I'to patients at the special hospital. The total number admitted rs voluntary boarders or military patient;) was 12fi (from camp 3 7, returhed soldiers 119); discharged leeoVeml. SO; disehargled mirceovered, 15; transferred to mental hospitals under reception order, 21: remaining under treat,mailt, 7; nofte died. 'l'he total number admitted under magistrate's order was 130 (from eamjii 4!i, returned soldiers R1) dkeliar/rert recovered, /»5: died, X; remaining under treatment, M In a larw majority <\l | the latter srroire the persd-nul or fii'milr, [Mstofy iwHcaUA a predUmitk* tsnieaJ -trial*}ftg - -m