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Show MENTAL DISEASES ARE INCREASING In the east, certain states are beginning be-ginning a movement to check mental disease, by spreading knowledge of the afflfctions and advising methods to combit the mental break-down Boston has a committee, co-operating with the Massachusetts Society Tor Mental Hygiene, which proposes I lo fight mental diseases much in the I same manner as tuberculosis has been lought. The committee informs in-country, in-country, in its first circular, that more than 72,000 men were rejected from the draft army for mental and nervous ner-vous diseases; 10 per cent of tho sol-'diers sol-'diers disabled during battle Buffered I not from wounds, but fTom functional nervous diseases, and in Massachusetts Massachu-setts alone, in 1921, an average year, I more than 20,000 patients were treated treat-ed in state hospitals for mental dls-'ease. dls-'ease. at a cost to tho state of not less Ithan $7,000,000 The committee plans to introduce the most enlightened methods ot treatment for mental dls ease already adopter! In Massachusetts Massachu-setts and to advocate early examination examina-tion and treatment. In Utah this work of education is being carried on in a limited way by Dr. Hyde, superintendent of the Men tal Hospital at Provo. Once a month In- Hyde Visits the principal cities. Including In-cluding OC'h n. and holds In each place a mental clinic, at which he make examinations and advises the distressed dis-tressed of mind how to overcome their weaknesses. I'nder modem civilization, it Is essential es-sential to give increasing attention to mental disorders, as the nerve strain grow with our Intensified living. Mental disease.- present quite as serious se-rious problem as does tuberculosis. |