AVONDALE MENTAL HOSPITAL.
WELLINGTON, April 12. Mr G. W. Russell (Minister of Public Health) has had inquiries made concerning complaints about the treatment of returned soldiers in the Avondale Mental Hospital. Recently it was stated in Auckland, on iho authority of the Returned Soldiers' Association, that these men were being treated with unnecessary harshness. Mr Russell says that there are only four soldiers in the Auckland Mental Hospital. Three of these when seen by Dr Hay assured him that they were comfortable. and ht'.d no complaints. The fourth man was not in a lit condition to be interviewed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3292, 18 April 1917, Page 24
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98AVONDALE MENTAL HOSPITAL. Otago Witness, Issue 3292, 18 April 1917, Page 24
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