THE INSANE INCREASING.
SERIOUS POSITION IN AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June 9, 10.50 p.m. Sydney, June 9. The inspector-general of the insane states that there are now over one thousand more mential patients than the State has room for. and. the position is growing steadily worse. He points out that unless more room is found the only way out is to discharge patients before they are thoroughly sane. The total number of persons under the control of the department at the end of June last was 7942, or 219 more than twelve months earlier. The proportion of admissions to mental hospitals to the total population in 1921 was one to every 1627. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1922, Page 5
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116THE INSANE INCREASING. Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1922, Page 5
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