MORE MENTAL CASES FROM WAR DISABILITY
(Special to the ” Star.”) AUCKLAND, June 16. Men who have claimed for the first time that they are suffering from war disability have become a liability on the Auckland Patriotic Association’s funds during the past year. As it was expected that more and more men would, with advancing age, experience the effects of war-time service and would find it impossible to maintain themselves and their families, the present position was considered by the association to be almost inevitable. Particularly serious has been the increase in the number of mental cases. This has been * noticed over the whole of New Zealand. At the present time over 200 ex-service men are inmates of the Auckland and Tokanui Mental Hospitals. Applications for relief due to disabilities and to unemployment have shown an increase from 3832 in 1930 to 5560 for the year ending March 31.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 142, 17 June 1931, Page 5
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148MORE MENTAL CASES FROM WAR DISABILITY Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 142, 17 June 1931, Page 5
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