THE MENTAL HOSPITAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 276, 19 November 1913, Page 2

THE MENTAL HOSPITAL.

(To the Editor.) Sir. —My heart was filled with sorrow when reading about the action of the unions on strike iv compelling workers to put down their tools and relinquish work so urgently ne-'ded for the accommodation ami classification of the dear sufferers in our Mental Hospital. You kindly allowed mc to insert a letter in your pi: per some weeks since stating that there are dear, unfortunate but still intelligent men in that place who had always been accustomed to a reined home, and who are now compelled daily to come in contact with pour degraded creatures, whose continuous language and habits are most disgusting. To be continually surrounded by such company cannot terd to improve their mental condition, and this -fate of things is chiefly owing to the want of room or cla-mitiea-tion and accommodation. I have visited at the Mental Hospital for some time, and have conversed with some of the patients, who invariably say that their lives have 'been made more bearable by the great kindness and thonghtfulne.-s of that Christian gentleman, Dr. Beattie. Surely no good purpose can be served by this urgently needed public

work.—l am, etc.. Mount Eden. ELIZA THOMAS.