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LAW ON INSANITY. MENTAL DEFICIENTS INCREASE. DANGER TO COMMUNITY. (Received 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Giving evidence before the Federal Health Commission, Professor Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor< of Anatomy at Melbourne University, said that mental deficiency was increasing in Australia as a result of the war, but with reasonable assistance the deficients- could be controlled. The Profess'or added that by reason of the obsolete definition of insanity, dating as far back as 1834, "boys of sixteen with 'the passions of an adult and the brains of a child of three were allowed to mix with normal citizens in Victoria, and were a grave danger to the community.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 26 February 1925, Page 5
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