INSANITY IN BRITAIN.
STATEMENTS BY EXPERTS. MARRIED CONDITION FAVOURED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 9.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 17. The statement made by Professor G. M. Robertson president of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, that insanity was nearly three times as prevalent among single men and women between the age- of 25 and 55, as it was among a simila number of married people of the same age, has been endorsed by experts. Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, consulting surgeon to Guy's Hospital, asserts that it is true of both sexes, but particularly of women. A comical bachelor may say that marriage is a lottery, but that does not alter the fact that marriage is the best condition of life. The national secretary of the Lunacy Reform League says the majority ot sufferers, within his experience, have been married ana then separated. This fact, he affirms, further endorses the statement oi Professor Robertson.
Colonel Fremantle, a member of the House of Commons, says it is the first time this defiirte statement has been made publicly from an authentic source. The obvious remedy is early marriage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19383, 19 July 1926, Page 9
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