NELSON MENTAL HOSPITAL.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14483, 15 August 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

NELSON MENTAL HOSPITAL.

REBUILDING PROPOSALS.

(From "The Colonist," August 7th.) The annual report of Dr. Frank Hay, Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals, makes the. following reference to the Nelson Mental Hospital:— Visited January, 1916, and January, ]917. The new kitchen is now completed, and promises to be a successful start for a new order of things, for the old building has'more than, served its time. The next addition should be the reception cottage, and then the orderly rebuilding .of the main institution ward by ward. Our drainage also should be led into the-' new sewer —at present it pusses ir.to the old sewerage system,now used chiefly for stormwater. The Rictmond Home for Defective Boys, which was associated with Nelson MentaJ Hospital, has been handed over to the Education Department,' and the boys who could not be educated have been transferred to a special ward at Nelson, where they are just as well off and are apart from the other patients. Looking to the future and the provision which will have to be made for this class. I would suggest that it be kepi in mind when planning the new building scheme at Nelson. There is not a big admission rate in this hospital, and a small institution .will meet the--re-quirement!? of the district for the mentally unsound—sufficient for the land area at our disposal. Ne'ison, therefore, .^nd because of its beautiful climrs+.e. is the most suitable of our institutions for mentally deficient children.