MENTAL HOSPITAL.
(To the Editor.) ' Sir, —Your able leader on the above (subject has (to quote Moore) broken the long chain of silence and public ' apathy that has hung round it. Although the main features of the question have I been dealt with by the Rev. Wilson and Mr. Armstead, knowledge which can on!) !be given by ex-patients is essentially necessary in order to confirm the accusations which already have been made, and bring forward others of a far more serious nature. A private inquiry, where no reference as to the motives which led to their incarceration would be revealed, would induce many ex-patients to give evidence with regard to inhumanity in this institution. Speaking as an ex-patient, on behalf of suffering humanity, we ask for justice, not sympathy.—l am, etc.. i " ' EX-PATIENT.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 125, 29 May 1925, Page 9
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133MENTAL HOSPITAL. Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 125, 29 May 1925, Page 9
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