MEDICAL CONGRESS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 11 August 1913, Page 5

MEDICAL CONGRESS.

i > • ■ INCREASE OF LUNACY. ,' SIB THOMAS CRICHTONBROWNE TAJIKS SERIOUSLY. tXiilia'-^- 1 Sydney Sun 9 Special Cahles. (Received August 9, 8.30 a.m.) •■"..., LONDON, August 8. !At the International Medical Con- ," "gress, Sir James Orichton-Browne, lord Chancelor's Visitor in Lunacy, -spoke of the increase in lunacy, which proportion to the increase •of population in all settled countries. In Britain in 1859 the insane nim">l>ered 36,762; in January,. 1913, the number was 138,377, an increase of r . 376 per cent, com pi rod with. 87 per fc, *cent. increase in population in the -«ome period. Dr Harold Stiles, surgeon to the Royal Edinburgh " Hospital for Sick "Children, said there was a great prevalence of tuberculosis among ■ Scottish children, due to dairy cows, •also to milk not being sterilised. i.. ; (Received August 9, 8.30' a.m.) ■ LONDON, August 8. At the Medical Congress Sir James . Crichton-Browne. said there was no ~.c good reason in a vigorous 'expanding -J Ta ce fop the; present increase in iun-v "Notwithstanding: the stfecess- 1 j Jul ', tredt'n en t of; diseases' 1 hitherto' tp lunacy;; the 'acc'tt!Jtala~ ■;•- > '^^^^tion."'pf.^eh , rolls 3 on', And;' >v.'.th'e rite of Recovery has fallen ■during IP- the latter half-century."