AMERICAN EX-SERVICEMEN
MENTAL PATIENTS VICTIMISED. SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS. Frees Association—By Telegraph.—Copyright. WASHINGTON, January 16. (Received Jan. 17, at 11.15 p.m.j _ The Government is undergoing criticism respecting the administration of homes and hospitals for ex-servicemen. A committee from the disabled American veterans presented President Harding with a petition setting forth that mentally disabled veterans were the victims of gross neglect, callous indifference, deliberate profiteering, and inadequate treatment. The committee charged the Government that it did not provide any hospital facilities for insane soldiers, but was farming-out these men among the various State asylums, which were notoriously overcrowded and inadequately equipped to treat or care for them. The committee alleged that’ various States were realising that a profit would result from the use of makeshifts instead of providing fully-equipped institutions. Many soldiers requiring treatment were unable to go to hospitals because they had dependents.—A. and N.Z. Cable. *
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18456, 18 January 1922, Page 5
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