MENTAL DISEASES.
The Bill wnich has been introduced by the Government for the Amendment of the' Lunacy Act is chiefly designed .to consolidate the various Acts affecting omental diseases, and i to classify the different forms of mental affliction. Advantage should be taken of the diiscussi6n upon the measure to urge upon the Govern--1 ment tike- necessity for establishing in each Island observation hospitals. It is painful to (think that many men and women are committed to .the mental hospitals' of the Domin- \ ion who 'have no right whatever to He there. Had tlhey been placed in •on observation institution, where their condition could foe observed from ,day to day, and where they could be soientiueally treated, many of them would have been restored to their normal mental condition. /Shocking though !the assertion may appear, it is nevertheless a Tpa-ct that j scores of people are rendered permanently insane -through being, brought, into contact ,\foith meritaJ { derelicts, and through being wrongly treated.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10299, 31 July 1911, Page 4
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162MENTAL DISEASES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10299, 31 July 1911, Page 4
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