THE DIVORCE COMMISSION.
(Received 2fi, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, October To
Giving evidence before the Divorce Commission, Dr. Clouston, lecturer on mental diseases, at Edinburgh University, urged that criminal lunatics should be divorced ; also, that where insanity was incurable the patient should be regarded as legally dead. Dr. Jones, medical superintendent of the Claybury Asylum, was also emphatic in favour of divorce for incurables and patients suffering from a'coh°lic insanity. He said thero wore 70,000 nmrried people confined in asylums.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5568, 26 October 1910, Page 3
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79THE DIVORCE COMMISSION. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5568, 26 October 1910, Page 3
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