Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1918 — Mental Hygiene, Distinct Innovation in Army Work [ARTICLE]

Mental Hygiene, Distinct Innovation in Army Work

“For the first time in the history of warfare,” says New York Medical Journal, “mental hygipne 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 army medical work, for the subjects of mental hygiene’ and of mental and nervous diseases in general, as occurring among soldiers in war time, were for many reasons either slightly treated or neglected altogether.”