SHOCK TREATMENT
Sir,-O. E. Burton’s letter is very opportune, There are many people whose consciences trouble them when they think of the welfare of the mentally unfit, I hope the publicity given to the "shocking" cure was part of a plan to pave the way towards making the public interested in hearing further details. My criticism of hospitals is that they are too few and too isolated. There are older women who could do excellent work in such hospitals if it didn’t entail leaving home. Many patients would be content and happy in these institutions if they were visited by relatives and friends, but as some hospitals are situated at present a day is required to pay only a short visit, ; Then the congestion in mental hospitals could be relieved if there were places in the nature of day nugseries where relatives could leave patients for short periods. I have known pathetic cases where senile sufferers have been sent to asylums because relations have broken down under the strain of night duty. As many of the incurable patients are in mental hospitals because of the timidity, love of comfort, lack of understanding, and stupidity of the sane, it is only just that we should make the lives of these sacrifices as happy and as contented as possible.
GRATITUDE
(Dunedin),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 321, 17 August 1945, Page 5
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