MENTAL HEALTH
> Rise in youth • admissions (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 6. A four-fold increase in the number of persons aged between 10 and 20 admitted to mental health institutions for the first time was recorded in 1967-68, said the Presbyterian and Methodist chap[pain at Porirua Hospital, the Rev. B. Glassey. Mr Glassey was quoting from figures recently released by the Health Department fot 1968, in his annual report to the Wellington Presbytery. Forty-one persons were admitted for drug dependency —iall aged between 13 and 24. The highest number of admissions was of persons between their late 20s and early 40s. Mr Glassey asked the Presbytery to note the increase in the number of young people admitted. “It is worse now than in, 1968,” he said. “This is bringing with it an urgent need to extend the specialists education facilities needed in Porirua Hospital.”
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32474, 8 December 1970, Page 9
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