LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Trcsnw. Dkoimukk '21
AFTERNOON SITTING. The Council nut at 2.30 p.m. CAIIK OF EPILEPTICS. The Hon. C. M. LCKE moved that the (government take into consideration durinp tho recess the advisability ot providm:: institutions in or near the tour larse otutros. or one for the Norw ldand and one for the South Island, lor t!io caro of epileptic cases, such i-acos Wnii; unfit tor treatment in mental or oth-r hospitals The ATTORNEY-GENERAL pointed cult that prc.VLs.ion had already been i;i;hlp for insane opilepuos. * Many epileptics were not insane, and wore rartiinsi their own liviiu;. If such people wero to ho incarcerated, a new principle, would have to be established, or residence in institutions of tho kind suggested woiilrl havo to be entirely voluntary. Tho motion was agreed to. At H p.m. the Council adjourned uuti , 7.4"i i>.in.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13612, 22 December 1909, Page 7
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