OCCUPATIONAL WORK

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20635, 10 December 1941, Page 6

OCCUPATIONAL WORK

1 MENTAL PATIENTS BENEFIT i An indication of the degree to which occupational therapy can be incorporated into the treatment of mental disease was given at the Auckland Mental Hospital last Sat- >. urday, when an exhibition of articles i produced under the therapy scheme s was v offered to interested visitors, s The function was opened by the s Director-General of Mental Hospitals. 3 Dr. T. G. Gray, who commented - upon the quality and variety of the - work exemplified by the articles on 1 display. 1 The quantity of work produced, and the value of thq. goods also, was of minor importance, said Dr. Gray. The aim of the scheme was to employ as many patients as possible . in occupational work for the betterment of their physical and mental I well-being. Recently there had been j a noticeable improvement in the ’ quality of work done by the patients, i and this was a reflection of closer 1 concentration and the arousing of |new interest on the part of the 'workers. Much of the success of the scheme to date, said Dr. Gray, was due to the efforts of Miss M. M. Inman, leader of the occupational therapy group under the Department of Health, and of her assistant, Miss D. Shaw. Miss D. Shaw is a daughter cvf Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Shaw, Harong'a road, Gisborne.