CHECKING CRIME WAVE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 21 December 1925, Page 9

CHECKING CRIME WAVE.

Going to the Source. DEALING WITH MENTAL DEFECTIVES. .By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, Received Dec. 20, 5.5 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. S. Albany (capital of the New York State),-is preparing to put into operation next year, a plan under which all children showing any tendency towards mental derangement, will be sought out in the schools, and given early treatment in an effort to check crime and the alarming increase of insanity. Dr. Havilland (chairman of the State Hospital Commission), and Dr. Grahles, (State Minister of Education), are working out the plan. They believe that the great preponderance of crime among youth is caused by mental defects, and could be corrected if these potential criminals were discovered when mere children. Dr. Havilland and Dr. Graves will aslt the Legislature for an appropriation to engage a psychiater in public education, who will work through the doctors’and nurses in every city. He will collect information ..of‘children showing traces to insanity, and these children will be treated at various clinics to . be maintained throughout the State;