CENTRAL MENTAL HOSPITAL.
■ — __. . (Special to Herald.) , WELLINGTON, this day. The Mental Hospitals Department is steadily carrying out its plans for a big central mental hospital at Tokanui, in the heart, qf the North Isjand. The extensive sito 'is a Very favorable one for building on garden city lines. Around a gentle eminence .between '400 and 500 acres, near the railway at Te Puhi, have been set apart for the preliminary buildings, where 65 patients are [already accommodated, the staff being under the control of Dr. Crissley, formerly medical superintendent at the old Mount View Asylum, Wellington. Additional . acommodation for 50 patients has been nearly completed. They will be employed" in thp development "of the estate, and eventually a light railway of four miles will be built to the principal site, and the main buildings erected, those now in use -being set apart for somo particular type of the mentally afflicted. An -'orchard has .been: -'started,' and good grass and 1 turnips ''ihjvye. been growing. ; : ■ ... • •■ . ;■' /.'"'
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19130303.2.16
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12996, 3 March 1913, Page 2
Word Count
164CENTRAL MENTAL HOSPITAL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 12996, 3 March 1913, Page 2
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.