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Show PUBLIC SANER j ABOUT INSANITY .Thousands G-oing to Be Treated Instead of Fretting Uselessly , NEW YORK, May 2 Th public is said to beeomliiK saner about insanity. in-sanity. Families used to feel it a terrible stigma if any of their kin was consider d "a little bit off." as the saying went But thousands of such people now go voluntarily to free dispensaries dis-pensaries "for nervous and m,enfal disorders." dis-orders." Lost year 3,858 person" in New York Stat" made 0.969 visits to the -10 such 'linn - . i.mlu' tee tliriuj?hout tho state. Only five or six years afro such a thlni was unknown, according to officials i of the state ChariUes Aid association! which Is cooperating in the work. i This organization pointing to 6tlts-tlcs 6tlts-tlcs which show th tuberculosis death r.itr- dropped about 34 per cent from 1907. when the organized fight on the White plague began, to 1920, expects to how thi same re-nnis in Ht, battlo I against insanity. l EOSRS t.i J R SUJLTS The war and l Imsi u's- depression depres-sion that has followed caused a con- aid association officials declared. They j have found, however, that serious Wor-' Wor-' rie and diseases are ijit the only waves that shove the mind ofi an even keel Some people become unbalan-i unbalan-i ced by tun much recreation, Just aa others skid from the paLi of" sanity because of overwork and domestic un-happiness. un-happiness. . What the assoc. ation Intends to do is popularize Information concerning the causes, treatment and prevention of mental disorders generally It con-I con-I tends that 40 per cent of the 40.000 persons in Now York state who are ! under treatment in asylums and hospitals hos-pitals for feeble minded cuulu hne been saved from such a fate if tho proper preventative measures had been laki-n In time. It feels that since the asylums of the country have a greater enrollment than the colleges, the peo-i pie ought to be taught to have themselves them-selves examined by ompetont physl- I clans if they feel queer, or if acquaintances acquaint-ances so consider them. The most hopeful sign for cutting' down insanity Is in the attitude of parents and teachers toward children. In t li belief (, the aid :i ssoclatlon "If we can help the queer children, wo will have fewer queer grownups In th' future." one official said. WORK is PRJ KNTATIVE Often the youngsters who are backward back-ward and queer merely need to have their tonsils or adenoids removed, the I doctors have found. But others have i complexes, Inhibitions and a neurosis or two fretting their young minds. In this connection, It was said that some of the doctors at the state hospitals make use of psychoanalysis, while oth-1 er8 do not believe in It Patients upon1 consultation often are told what to stop worrying about, and field agent go around to see how they arc getting get-ting along. Others arc discovered to be worse off than "merely nervous" I as they most often describe their own condition, and occasionally these have to be sent to an Institution Cultivation of health through proper habits of the mind and the cutting out of bad mental habits is one idea that those working on the problem hopo to put Into the public's head. Brood- ' Ing over being snubbed bv others, or misfortunes and Injuries Is the thing, he experts want people to stop doing Work Instead of day dreaming these' experts say. is a pretty good way to rev. nt getting lop-sided between' the ?an |