MENTAL COMMITMENTS.
UETURNED MEN CONCERNED,
SEVERAL ACCUSATIONS
DUNEDIN, This Day. The committee of bhe local R.S.A. held 'an inquiry' into the statement recently made regarding saldier mental patients. The member Who made the allegation cited three eases which he conltended were wrongfully committed and called as witnesses the relatives of one patient and one who been a patient, also a lady visitor to the institution. It was alleged that one soldier with a wound in his back had not received proper medioal attention. The inquiry was adjourned Itill this evening to "enable an inquiry to be made at the Magistrate's Court office. —Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 20 October 1920, Page 5
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104MENTAL COMMITMENTS. Northern Advocate, 20 October 1920, Page 5
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