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SOLDIERS FROM OVERSEAS (CRUEL RUMOURSi DEIpO (F.O.P.RJ " I would like to take- this opportunity of correcting the' impression, so mischievously and cruelly circulated by rumour-mongers that hundreds of soldiers from overseas are in our mental hospitals." said the Minister of Health, Mr A, H. Nordmeyeiv during the course of -a • broadcast acaress toni "As a matter of fact," he said, "of the men who have returned only 28 have been admitted to our mental hospitals and these, together with five voluntary boarders, have been cases which by their very nature could not be treated elsewhere. I am glad to sav'that of these no fewer than nine have already completely recovered. .The proportion of mentally afflicted "to the numbers overseas is actually smaller than the proportion within New Zealand of a similar number in the same age group."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24836, 9 February 1942, Page 4
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