WAR NEUROSIS CASES
Circumstances in which returned war neurosis victims find themselves are to be carefully investigated by a special committee to report to the Dominion executive committee of the New Zealand Returned Services' Association within three months, and suggestions to improve the position are to be placed before the appropriate Minister when approved. This decision by the annual conference of the association was made as a result of a Dunedin remit, speaking to which Mr. O. L. Ferens said he particularly wished to see devised a system whereby such returned men would not have to be subject to a magisterial committal order when it was necessary for the ex-serviceman to be accommodated in an institution. Mr. Armes (Wellington) described the overcrowded conditions in understaffed mental hospitals, and strongly recommended the use of separate homes for war neurosis cases, one in the North and one in the South Island. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1945, Page 9
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149WAR NEUROSIS CASES Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1945, Page 9
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