CURSE OF NEUROSIS
WORBE THAN CANCER INCREASE IN MENTAL CLINICS (United Press Assn.—Eire. Tel. Copyright: LONDON, May 31 Special deparlments, controlled by neurologists, are to be installed in casualty hospitals to deal with bombshocked civilians in war time, according to a Government plan. In making this announcement, the Minister of Health, Mr Walter Elliot. added that mental hospital clinics had been increased by 50 per cent in the last four years, but a war would be an immense additional strain. The Director of the National Medical Psychology Institute, Dr. J. It. Rees, said that cancer was child’s play compared with neurosis. It was responsible for more invalidism and economic wastage.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20820, 2 June 1939, Page 10
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110CURSE OF NEUROSIS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20820, 2 June 1939, Page 10
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