OVERCROWDED.
SOME MENTAL HOSPITALS. PARLIAMENTARY REPORT. (Special to Times ) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The annual report on mental hospitals presented in the House of Representatives to-day refers to the overcrowded conditions of some mental hospitals in the Dominion. At the end of the year 6293 persons were actually resident in mental hospitals, in addition there were 359 patients out on probation in the care of friends and relatives. ' Some institutions are suffering from a shortage of accommodation. During the year 1407 persons were admitted and in spite of discharges, deaths and releases on probation the population of the hospitals was 336 in excess of that of the previous year. To meet the increase additional accommodation had been made available for about 300 patients, but at the end of the year the department had 748 patients in excess of the proper accommodation.
Capital expenditure during the year on alterations, improvements and additions to institutions amounted to £134,140, but it is pointed out that so far as the South Island is concerned botli the Scacliff and Christchurch institutions are taxed for room and an estate for the erection of a new institution should be ‘acquired about halfway between the main cities.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18394, 30 July 1931, Page 8
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