LUNACY COMMISSION.
EVIDENCE OBJECTED TO. BY GABLE--PRESS A SSOCIATTON GOPV’i? lOHI LONDON, Feb. 11. The chairman of the Lunacy Commission objected to the one-sided language of the memorandum of the Society for Lunacy Reforms, which declared: “It would take a Dante to describe the distressing, horror-striking qualities of the gloomy, odour-laden asylum wards.” The chairman said that while it must be admitted that the most _ deplorable incidents occurred in certain institutions, it should not go forth to the public that intolerable conditions are general in our asylums. Mr Parker, continuing his evidence, insisted that much truth underlay the memorandum. He had seen men coming out of trenches and from asylums, and there was little difference between them. It was a terrible thing to mix a drastic purgative like croton oil with food. The knowledge that food was drugged had a serious t effect on patients. Even when the food was not drugged patients were often under the impression that it was, and would not. touch the food for days until forced by hunger to do so. though in some cases patients were forcibly fed by a tube immediately thev refused to eat.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 February 1925, Page 5
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