Mental Hospital Patients.— Cases under care during the year totalled 1671, made up of 858 men and 813 women, said the medical superintendent of Sunnyside Mental Hospital (Dr. A. C. McKillop), in his annual report to the Minister in charge of Mental Hospitals. During 1946, 214 patients—--97 men and 117 women—were admitted, and 10 men and six women were transferred from other institutions. Forty-one men and 60 women were discharged. At the end of the year 738 males and 698 females, including 198 patients absent on probation, were patients of the hospital
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25253, 4 August 1947, Page 2
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