MENTAL TREATMENT
POINTS IN A NEW POLICY By Telegraph.—Press Association. Blenheim, February 13. Speaking at a civic reception to-day, the Minister of Health (Hon. J. A. Young) outlined a new progressive policy in the treatment of mental cases. He said he had given the matter deep consideration, with his advisers and experts, and points of a progressive policy had been decided on, as follow: — (a) To afford the fullest opportunity for persons in a state of nervous and mental instability to obtain early and reliable advice, so as to facilitate prompt recognition and suitable treatment in tl»e incipient stages of a mental breakdown. . . , x(b) To insure provision and the use of improved methods of handling and dealing with mental cases prior to, and at the time of, committal as insane, and to do away with temporary lodgment in the prison pending decision. 'c) To insure provision and the better use of facilities for the classification, care, and treatment, especially in the case of more recent impressionable, sensitive, and curable patients.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 119, 13 February 1926, Page 8
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170MENTAL TREATMENT Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 119, 13 February 1926, Page 8
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