CONTROL OF MENTAL CASES
REVISION OF PRACTICE SOUGHT.
By Telegraph.—Press Association
Auckland, Last Night. The following resolution was carried at a joint meeting of the anthropology section of the Science Congress and the Auckland Education Society to-day:— “That in view of recent cases adequate safeguards against the improper committal of persons to mental hospitals should be provided by means of a revision of the existing law and practice.”
This resolution will be forwarded to the Prime Minister’ and to the Minister of Health.
Summarising the views expressed, Professor Belshaw said the meeting seemed to be of opinion that there should be a clear description of persons competent to appeal for the committal of another persons to a mental hospital, that a committal to a mental hospital was on the whole likely to be more injurious to the individual than a magisterial inquiry, that there should be a doctor chosen on behalf of the patient concerned and that there? should be periodical revision of cases.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 January 1929, Page 9
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