RAVAGES OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 33, 2 November 1929, Page 10

RAVAGES OF WAR

PLIGHT OF RETURNED MEN “It was one of the saddest missions I have ever carried out, and the regretable part of It is that the number of mental patients is increasing,” said the president of the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association (Colonial G. T. Hall) at the last executive meeting of that body, in speaking of his visits to returned soldiers who were hospital patients and inmates of mental institutions. He said it showed how deep-seated were the ravages of war, and that time was no healer in that respect. Whatever could be done by the association for those unfortunate “diggers” was being done, and regular visits were paid weekly by the secretary, who attended to any detail, no matter how insignificant it might seem on the surface, entrusted to him by the inmates. Some little satisfaction was thus given to these unfortunate comrades who were carrying such a heavy cross. The work of the secretary in this connection was highly commended, and members testified to the fact that to that official alone would some of the inmates confide their troubles.