THE MENTAL HOSPITAL.
On Saturday afternoon i Messrs. Ewington and Lawson paid an official visit" to the Mental /Hospital, where 670 'patients; are now living. There are little children and old persons, who have evceeded the allotted span of; three score years and ten. One has been an inmate- for nearly 50 years. The patients enjoy fairly good health, and about a-third of them are able to do light work in the buildings, kitchen garden, or ' farm. They now /have a bakehouse ,and bake their own bread, which is/ah' advantage ,to j the institution. - Dr. Beatty , has of late "improved the classification of patients, erected shelter-sheds in the yard, and laid out■; an ' exercise park for' the- males, -- similar to one the females have long enjoyed, while tho inside of the building has been brightened with suitably; coloured windows. They .badly need, .we ;- are told, a new piano • for the male patients ,and two ! large: mirrors" for the day rooms of the female patients, and. the, official visitors will/be glad to hear of any < persons /willing to present those desirable gifts to the'patients. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13487, 14 May 1907, Page 3
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183THE MENTAL HOSPITAL. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13487, 14 May 1907, Page 3
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