MENTAL DEFICIENCY
INCREASE IN AUSTRALIA A RESULT OF THE WAR (Rec. February 26, 1.25 a.m.) Melbourne. February 25. Giving evidence before the Federal Health " Commission, Professor Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Anatomy at Melbourne University, said mental deficiency was increasing in Australia as a result of the war, but with reasonable assistance the deficients could be controlled. He added that bv reason of the obsolete definition of insanity, dating as far back as 1834, boys of sixteen, with the passions of an adult and the brains of a child of three, were allowed to mix with normal citizens in Victoria, and were a grave danger to the community.—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 130, 26 February 1925, Page 9
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114MENTAL DEFICIENCY Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 130, 26 February 1925, Page 9
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