Simultaneously with modern a: pects of insanity the methods of treatment have thoroughly changed; no more seclusion in a cell or a padded room, Bed treatment! as in every other hospital for acute cases, occupation in the free air for chronic eases. Even detention in the "Asylum" for a long period is rejected as it is observed that long residence in an asylum where pa-fients are cared for develops helplessness and develops most antisocial traits, Nowadays the opinion prevails that mentally sick persons must be discharged from the asylums soon as possible and placed under medical supervision in families of their own relatives or, for a special fee in the homes of strangere; there they can, generally in the country, enjoy the happiness of home life and adapt themselves to all the possibilities of the environment. some places as in the village of Gheel in Belgium there live in farmers' homes" several_ thousand insane. While I held office as Health Commissioner in the capital of Russ I organized similar institutions in some villages near Petrograd on a big. scale.
It is impossible in a daily paper to give even the shortest sketch on insanity. I tried only to point out that mental discases are, according to the contemporary point of view, only developments of congenital conditions, that there cannot be traced a distinct line between the sound and unsound mind and ast but not least that "picking but-teacups under the watchful eye of an attendant" is rather a anachroism-in the treatment of mental diseases.
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