MENTAL CASES
MINISTER MAKES A PRONOUNCEMENT. , (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. Speaking at a civic reception to-day, the Hon. J. A. Young, the new Health Minister, took the/opportunity to outline a new progressive policy in the treatment of mental casea. Ho. said ho had given tho matter deep consideration, with his advisers and experts, and .these points of a progressive policy had been decided on, as follows:— (a) To afford the fullest opportunity for persons in a state of nervous and mental instability to obtain early reliable advice, so as to facilitate prompt recognition and suitable treatment in the incipient stages of a mental breakdown. (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 in;_# c 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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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 37, 12 February 1926, Page 11
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174MENTAL CASES Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 37, 12 February 1926, Page 11
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