Mary Keenan O'Connor, a 19-year-old girl, of Philadelphia, has been handed over to the police by her father, who heard her say in her sleep that she killed a child of five for asking for a ride on her bicycle. According to Sir Farquhar Buzzard, Physician-in-Ordinary to King George, nervous disorders are responsible for a loss of 10,000,000 weeks of working time every year. One person in every 14 suffers from nervous disorders to the extent Of needing treatment, 20 per cent have severe symptoms, and a further 20 per cent show odd symptoms. Nervous ailments are due largely to the great stress of modern commercial and industrial conditions, and far more women are afflicted than men.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19555, 10 February 1938, Page 18
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