SOUTH AFRICANS’ MENTAL HEALTH
Campaign Under Way CAPE TOWN. A recent week in South Africa was National Mental Health Week and the South African Council for Mental Health disclosed that one out of 10 persons in South Africa suffers from some kind of mental disorder which needs psychiatric treatment. Many more people die by suicide in South Africa than from road accidents, and there are more suicides than fatal cases of tuberculosis, polio and malaria together. There are also more people in mental hospitals than there are polio, cancer, heart ailment and tuberculosis patients. The recent Mental Health Week concentrated specially on the young. For five Wednesday afternoons the Mental Health Society of the Witwatersrand conducted matriculation students on tours of Tara and Sterkfontein Hospitals.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30176, 6 July 1963, Page 8
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