THE NEW MENTAL HOSPITAL.
TO SUCCEED MOUNT VIEW. WILL BE ON THE MAIN TRUNK LINE. THE DEPARTMENT'S PROPOSALS. A SELP-CONTAINED COMMUNITY. By Telegraph— Association. WELLINGTON, December 13. The site of the Central Mental Hospital, which is to be established in the North Island, is on the North Island Trunk Railway, and Crown lands will be utilised. Many and varied considerations have ent.: - ;:; into the matter of the selection, access, area, climate, quality of s*. i\ and so on, and all the while tha j Department has had in view the fact that in establishing the Hospital it > would as far as possible seek to erect an institution which would enable the officers in charge to carry into effect the latest and most up-to-date thories for the treatment of the insane. There will be no big blocks of buildings, the structures will be designed more particularly for the purpose of facilitating the work of classification, and necessary separate treatment. In the course of time the new hospital will, it is expected, become a self-contained community, growing its own vegetables, grain, meat and so on, because the area available will be some thousands of acres, capable of cutlivation for all sorts of purposes and if the experiment succeeds able to provide from its own labour the cost of running. The curative effects of classification and small communities of inmates in conjunction with the up-to-date system of treatment consequent thereon are the objects chiefly aimed at, but with the large area of land occupied there are possibilities of economical working. The new Government House is to bo erected on the land occupied by the Mount View Mental Hospital, and the work is to be put in hand as soon as possible. At the commencement of operations only a portion of the inmate.? will be disturbed, and the extensions now going on at Seacliff, Porirua, Auckland, Waiati, will be sufficient to provide for their accommodation meanwhile. The erection of the various blocks of buildings at the new Mental Hospital will be carried on with the necessary expedition, and it is anticipated that within only a few months a considerabple amount of accommodation will have been provided. The policy will be to draft there all the patients who are capable of aiding in the development of the institution, and patients who can work while the curative process is going on, leaving to the other institutions in the care of those patients who have no industrial value.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3069, 14 December 1908, Page 5
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411THE NEW MENTAL HOSPITAL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3069, 14 December 1908, Page 5
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