THE TREATMENT OF MENTAL DEFECTIVES.
NEW ZEALAND HAS A WONDERFUL CHANCE. I’er Fr*s* Association. WELLINGTON, May 21. After an eight months’ tour of the States and Continent, Dr Gray, Deputy Inspector-General of Mental Hospitals, returned to Wellington yesterday. The object of his visit abroad was to gather information relating to the treatment of the mentally defective. Dr Gray says that Scandinavia is particularly progressive in the matter, but there is a world-wide movement towards more enlightened treatment. A great step forward was the separation j of congenital defectives from the insane. The problem of eugenics was receiving much attention with the object of the prevention of the propagation of the unfit. The whole problem was one of great magnitude, embracing also juvenile offenders and children’s { courts. Dr Gray said: “We have a i wonderful chance in New Zealand to } start where others have left off, and give a lead to the world, and there is no reason why we should not do it.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18161, 21 May 1927, Page 6
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