Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1918 — Mental Hygiene for Defectives. [ARTICLE]

Mental Hygiene for Defectives.

“For the first time in the history of warfare,” says the New York Medical Journal, “mental hygiene as practiced among the soldiers is given the prominence it deserves, and, profiting by the experience of England and France in the present war, the surgeon general was impelled to inaugurate an elaborate organization, both in number and plan, to take care of any mental disturbances detected in the camps or among the soldiers during the war. This is a distinct innovation in the medical army work, for the subjects of the mental hygiene and of mental and nervous diseases in general as occurring among soldier in wartime were for many reasons either slightly treated or neglected altogether.”