NEW MENTAL HOSPITAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 246, 17 October 1910, Page 6

NEW MENTAL HOSPITAL.

(By Telegraph.—Press -Association.) WELUNG-TON, this day. The Hon, D. Buddo (Acting Minister in charge of Mental Hospitals) states that building will commence almost immediately at the central mental hospital site near Te Awamutu. Plans axe well under way, and operations are to be pushed on as expeditkraely as possible, because mental hospital accommodation is extremely limited at present. The new institution has a fine site of 5000 acres, and an ideal situation for the building is to 'be found upon a hill 300 feet high. Each division of patients will have a separate building for their accominod-ation, but these ** units," as they are termed, wul all be at 150 ft level on the Mil, and connected with a light tramway, along ■which food "will be distributed from a central kitchen. The scheme has been co designed that it can do useful work in its early stages, and' be gradually developed as need gTOws. Able-bodied patients will find plenty of heaifchy and , useful work on the farm, and it is in this direction of open-air occupation that the xnsfcrfcixfcion will be of the greatest value. Its head is to be Br. Crosby, formerly superintendent of the old Mount View Hospital. He i»,now in England on leave, and intends inspecting some of the institutions there which are conducted on the villa system.