SHELL SHOCK

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160639, 1 May 1920, Page 10

SHELL SHOCK

DEPARTMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS, LONDON, iprii 30. The House of Lords approved the appointment df a departmental committee to investigate the effects of different kinds of sh oil-shock. The inquiry will include cases where sentence of death was inflicted on charges of cowardice. Speakers urged the necessity of placing (hose suffering from shell-shock for a sufficient time under medical observation to ascertain whether their mental balance was affected. Lori Peel, replying, said the War Office would be glad to accept a mixed committee, including a lawyer, and perhaps soldiers. Extreme care had, however, always to be exercised at courtmartials where shell-shock cases were involved. A medical officer was alwava included if there was any suggestion of mental or nervous disorder, but many nervous and mental conditions were encountered entirely new to medical officers.