INCIPIENT MENTAL PATIENTS
SUGGESTED TREATMENT IN GENERAL HOSPITAL. In the course of his special report read at yesterday's meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board, the Hospital Medical Superintendent (Dr. Wobdhouse) referred to a type of case which lie considered should be, provided for in a. general hospital. "I refer," he stated, "to tho incipient mental case. I do not know the attitudo of tho Mental Hospitals Department on this matter, but I think that mental disease miqiit to some extent, bo prevented by placing patients in a general hospital nt the first sign. After treatment such a patieu; would be discharged without ever having been in a mental hospital, which institutions, however well they muy be cwithicted, carry with them in the minds of many of the public a certain amount of stigma. "There must be many women, who are physically and mentally tired by the strain of a large family, who would gladly accept a period of complete rest m a quiet ward or room in a general hospital, and thus be'made strong again, but who would not enter a mental hospital except under strong compulsion."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 256, 23 July 1920, Page 7
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187INCIPIENT MENTAL PATIENTS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 256, 23 July 1920, Page 7
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