Show A NEW BRITISH EFTCEFTIC COLONY I A Private Asylum WillJlo Opened Soon In Vucklnghunjsliire I We are glad to boable to announce I that the National Society For the Employment Em-ployment of Epileptics will in a few weeks open their industrial colony for epileptics at Chalfont St Peters in Buckinghamshire We recently gave the welcome intelligence that a bill had been passed in the state of New York providing for the establishment in that state of an industrial colony for epileptics epilep-tics The passing of this measure is we believe mainly due to Dr Petersons strenuous and able advocacy of the cause and wo heartily congratulate him on the success which crowns his labors I In considering the American and the English schemes one cannot fail to be impressed by tho contrast between our own methods and thodo prevailing on the other side of the Atlantic Hero we incline to institutions promoted by private pri-vate effort But in America the tendency is toward institutions originating under the auspices of public authority Our national society will open its colony with 135 acres of land a d about a score of patients The importance of congenial occupation occupa-tion as a therapeutic agent in the case of epileptics is now generally admitted and it is well known that under ordinary ordi-nary conditions the lot of the epileptic is one of enforced idleness detrimental to the interests of himself and his friends Except by tho establishment and adequate developmeatpf the colony this evil is not likely be mitigated British Medical Journal |