PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
1 IMPORTANT ALTERATIONS PENpiNG. i WELLINGTON, January 7. Speaking of the unification of the Public ' Health Department and the hospitak of the colony, the Minister of Public Health 1 (the Hon. G. Fowlds) said he was a strong believer in local administration so far as the hospitals were concerned^ and against i centralisation, though he thought that, as ' the Government provided a large proportion of the total cost of the upkeep, it 1 should have a little more control than at present. i The Minister intimated that he was looking out for a site for a central mental hospital in the North Island, which would relieve Mount View Hospital, Wellington. All the mental hospitals were practically full, and it would be better to establish a central institution than extend the existing institutions. The Government proposes making provision for the establishment of receiving institutions in each of the four centres, where persons in incipient stages of insanity can go, either voluntarily or be committed, for observation and special treatment. In these the patients will receive more individual treatment than is now possible in the large mental hospitals, which will be an I important factoi in effecting cures. i —
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Otago Witness, Issue 2758, 23 January 1907, Page 13
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