MENTAL ILLNESS INCREASING
RESULT OF PRESENT-DAY MAD WHIRL OF SPEED
Sydney, Oct. 4. Mental illness was increasing at an alarming rate, said Dr. Idris Morgan, of Newcastle, to-day, to the annual conference of New South Wales health inspectors. He claimed that one person in every 250 of population of Australia was insane, and that 20 per cent, suffered some kind of mental illness. The causes were fear, anxiety, excessive fatigue and feelings of frustration and inferiority.
The birthright of health was slowly being destroyed in a mad whirl of mechanisation and speed. Every person, no matter how great his stamina, had a mental and physical collapse point beyond which he could not go.
Research work was a thousand times more important than the provision of more hospitals and asylums.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 October 1946, Page 5
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