MENTAL DISEASES.
DEPARTMENTAL POSITION. EXPERT ARRIVES FROM LONDON. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION. J WELLINGTON, Wednesday. Dr. J. P. F. Waters arrived from London by the lonic to-day to join the Mentat Hospitals Department. Dr. Waters is 44 years of age. He received! Ills early training in the Carlow and Richmond Mental Hospitals and was later appointed deputy-superintendent of the Suffolk County Mental Hospital. On the. passing of the 1913 Act, he becam* adviser to the Suffolk County Mental Deficiency Committee. He served in the East African campaign during the war, and on demobilisation in 1920 specialised in neurological diseases, when he becam* medical officer at the Mandalay Hospital for border-line and incipient mental cases. In 1923 Dr. Waters was commissioned by the Minister of Pensions to inaugurate and organise special hospitals at Ewelt and Saltash for nervous diseases. At th* time of his appointment to New Zealand Dr. Waters was neurological specialist the Ministry of Pensions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19676, 30 June 1927, Page 8
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