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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 August 1928, Page 7

In commenting upon the New Zeaand .system of committing patients to mental hospitals, Dr. T.G. Gray (In-spector-General of Mental Hospitals) savs in his anual report presented, to Parliament that in Scotland, where one never hears the word, “stigma,” the difficulties experienced in New Zealand, do not exist, because upon the application of the relatives, accompanied ay. tvvo medical certificates, the patient inav be received in the mental hospital and detained lor three days.- The documents are at once sent to the sheriff (Magistrate), who sees that the e.o-ai formalities have been complied with and then issues a detention order. “I may add that there is no record in the Scottish law courts during the last se.cntv years of any person having been improperly detained in a mental , Vital,” says Dr. Gray. “In Scandinavia the procedure is essentially the same; I would strongly urge that an amendment be made to our Act in the direction of adopting a procedure similar to that which works so admirably in Scotland.”

At cat- patient at the branch of the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals at Salford, Manchester, has formed a friendship with a mouse which she caught a year ago. Whenever the cat is at home, the mouse plays with her, running over her back and showing not the least fear.