CARE OF MENTAL CASES.
NEW POLICY OUTLINED. TREATMENT IN EARLY STAGES. By Telegraph.—(Press Association. Blenheim, Last Night. Speaking at a civic reception to-day the Him. J. A. Young, the new Minister for Health, took the opportunity to outline a new .progressive policy in tile treatment of mental eases.
Mr. Young said lie had given flic matter deep consideration with his advisers and experts, and these points of a progressive policy had been decided on as follow:—(a) To afford the fullest opportunity for persons in a state of nervous and mental instability to obtain early and reliable advice so as to facilitate prompt recognition and suitable treatment in the incipient stages of a mental breakdown; (b) to ensure the provision and use of improved methods of handling and dealing with mental cases prior to and at the time of committal as insane, and to do away with temporary lodgment in prison pending a decision; (el to ensure provision and bet ter use of the facilities for elassifiea-
ion, care and treatment, especially in he cn.se of more recent, impressionable, eneitive anil curable patients.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1926, Page 13
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