STATE MENTAL HOSPITALS
Inquiry’s Report Due Soon
(Neu Zeatrrna Hres* Association) WELLINGTON, July 3. There was an “immense amount of overcrowding” in New Zea- ' land’s mental hospitals, the Minister of Health (Mr Mason) said during ;the Address-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives today. Mr Mason said a Board of Health committee had considered whether mental health sections could be established in general hospitals, and its report would be released soon. » The committee had been asked to consider a system of integrating psychiatric staffs of general hospitals and the staff of mental hospitals- The report would be released when this had been done. “It doesn’t seem the best thing to do simply to enlarge existing mental hospitals or build new ones,” Mr Mason said. He said the committee was also consider* ing the improvement of out- > patient facilities to reduce the < burden on hospital beds.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28938, 4 July 1959, Page 14
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