TREATMENT OF MENTAL CASES.
AUCKLAND, February 13
During discussion on the subject of the necessity f<,r early treatment in oases of mental disorder, it was stated the practice at present in hospitals was to get these patients to a receiving house or asylum as soon as possible, yet those cases could very often be early treated as hospital patients and tihe plan of certification avoided. The hospital clinic would also be most valuable for training students. At present, medical men generally knew appallingly .little about mental disease and its treatment, especially in early cases. Students had now perfunctorily to attend certain classes at more or less distant asylums. They
did not see many early cases, and got little insight into their appropriate treatment. Hospital clinics would change that altogether. On the unotion of Dr. R. iM. Beattie, of Auckland, seconded by Dr. Yule (Melbourne) it was agreed : *• That the section of psychological medicine and .neurology is strongly of opinion that The time has arrived when the early treatment of mental disorder should be undertaken iv general hospitals in specially provided wards attached to and separate from the . general wards of the hospitals, and for this .purpose a specially-trained assistant should bo appointed to the hospitals."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20011, 14 February 1914, Page 2
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