MENTAL HOSPITAL STRIKE.
PATIENTS' SORRY PLIGHT. Renter. DUBLIN, April 4. Owing to the engineers at the Letterkenny Mental Hospital joining in IKe staff strike, the 600 patients in the institution are without heat for cooking. They have plenty of bread and milk, however. Many of th» milder mental patients are assisting the six attendants who did not strike. A number of those who escaped, including the dangerous patients, have been recaptured. Similar strikes are foreshadowed elsewhere in the Free State. The committee of management of the institution to-day confessed themselves helpless to carry on. They, threw the responsibility on the Free State Government. A number of ex-service men offered their assistance but were intimidated by the strikers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18678, 7 April 1924, Page 9
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117MENTAL HOSPITAL STRIKE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18678, 7 April 1924, Page 9
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