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-APPENDIX 11. A Brief Note on the Work op tut? Department with respect to Soldiers prom the Beginning of the War. to the Ist September, 1918. We have dealt with two classes —those who could be treated without being placed under reception orders, being held as voluntary patients or as military patients, and accommodated, with few exceptions, either at the Anzac Hospital, Karitane, near Seacliff, or at the AVolfe Home, Auckland; and those whose condition was such that they could not be properly treated outside ;i mental hospital, and were admitted under Magistrate's order. Some of the patients in the first group were on the border-line of the second, and those who passed beyond that line had to In- placed under reception orders and taken to a mental hospital, both for their own good and Ihe good of the patients at the special hospital. Total number admitted as voluntary boarders or military patients.. I2(i (from camps, 7-. returned soldiers, II!)). „ discharged recovered .. .. .. ..80 ~ „ nnrecovered .. .. .. .. 15 „ died .. .. . . . . .. . . 0 ~ transferred to mental hospitals under reception order,. 24 ~ remaining under treatment .. .. .. 7 Total number admitted under Magistrates' orders .. .. 130 (from camps, 49 ; returned soldiers, 81). ~ discharged, recovered .. .. .'. ..55 died . . .. .. .. .. .. 8 ~ remaining under treatment .. .. .. 67 In a large majority of the second group the personal or family history indicated a predisposition to mental disorder.

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