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Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1920, Page 5

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■ii l OF SOLDIERS. jfr Prau Aun.—Copyright y' Dunedin, Sept. 29. \. 4Uet*tions regarding the admission ' MMier patients to mental hospitals /wa&iaade at a meeting of the executive of the Returned Soldiers' Association by b ihember, who said it had come to his soldiers had been coms9itted, to. Seacliffe Mental Hospital ; Without tfte order of a magistrate. He Bitswid, and it was carried, that the Defence Department be asked, through Br." Adams, for a report replying to certain questions. - These asked for information concerntt»aoldler patients at preset in the BajpHße Rental Hospital, the numbers Admitted during the period 1914-1920, the lumber admitted without a magistrate'* artier, the number admitted who Wed that, and the total number of jltttta of wjdier patients there from |»u torn, " Motions alio passed asked what attention was given to wounds and phy>ical disabilities of / soldier patients in (SeadJffe, whether there was a secret Understanding between the Defence Department and the officers in charge at ffetcliffe regarding the admission of soldier patients, who was the owner of the Karitane Hospital, what was paid |6r' the lease of it,' what agreement teas entered into by the Defence Departjtoeat for taking it over, and when and by whose authority it was closed to jpldier patients!