MENTAL HOSPITALS CRITICISED
PLAIN SPEAKING BY CHRISTCHURCH DEPUTATION[Pun I’nrfcp ASSOCIATION.. CHRISTCHURCH, June 26. The speakers at a deputation which waited on the Hon. G. Fowlcls to-day referred, in very strong terms, to the absence of am* institution or observation wards in which mentally afflicted people, described as lining on the borderland between sanity and insanity, could be placed. A lady stated that in 15 years’ experience of asylums she had seen all classes”©!' patients herded together in large wards, among them being many cases in which there would have been a. recovery had the unfortunates been placed in smaller homes. • - Dr. O’Brien voiced the prevailing sentiment when lie said that people not definitely insane should, not be put into an asylum and stigmatised as insane. The law does not provide anything 1 else, though it ought to do so.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2539, 28 June 1909, Page 5
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139MENTAL HOSPITALS CRITICISED Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2539, 28 June 1909, Page 5
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