SHELL SHOCK CASES.
PROVISION MADE FOR SUFFERERS. V ELLINGTON, June 15.
At a New Zealand Club luncheon to-dav Surgeon-general Sir Donald M ‘Gavin made some interesting remarks about shell-shock. Tho cases of so-called shell-shock in New Zealand had now almost all been cured, and there were not many of these patients left. _ Shell-shock, he said, was eminently curable, and was now passing away. As an excuse for abnormal conduct shell-shock was scarcely valid now, and tho sooner people began to realise this the better it
would be for tho soldier. For all who had suffered in this way due provision had been made, and the work had been very satisfactorj".
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Otago Witness, Issue 3510, 21 June 1921, Page 42
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110SHELL SHOCK CASES. Otago Witness, Issue 3510, 21 June 1921, Page 42
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