THE DUNEDIN IMBECILES.
[BY telegraph.— PRESS association.] Dune din, Wednesday. The question of the discharged lunatics came before the benevolent trustees again to-day. A letter whs received from Dr. Hacon, of Christchurch, congratulating the trustees on their decision not to admit lunatics, and asking hem to consider the action of the Government in appointing medical nicnof nospecial experience to act as inspectors and medical superintendents of asylums in the colony, and to assist him in demanding a commission of inquiry in lunacy. The trustees decided to inform Mr. Torrance, chaplain, who has charge of the patients, that they cannot advise him what to do in the matter. The Chairman mentioned that he was quite sure no one would be found to take charge of a woman who had been released. She had been sent to gaol before going to the Asylum for cutting and wounding, and had rather a homicidal tendency.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8316, 24 July 1890, Page 5
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