N.S.W. MENTAL PATIENTS.
INSTITUTIONS OVERCROWDED. (Received 0 a.m.i SYDNEY, this day. The Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals states that there are now over 1,000 more mental patients than the .State has room for, and the position Is growing steadily worse. He says that unless more room is found the only way out is to discharge patients before they are thoroughly sano. The total number of persons under control by the department at the end of June last was 7,042, or 219 more than in the 12 months earlier. The proportion of admissions to mental hospitals to the total population in 1021 was one to every 1,027. —< (A. and X.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1922, Page 7
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