The insane asylums and hospitals for the mentally deranged are filled to overflowing in the stricken districts of Japan, the greater portion of the inmates being those who have lost their reason by what they have suffered or experienced in the quakes and fires of September 1. A pitiable fact is that the majority of those who are mentally ill-balanced are women and children, some of the latter as young og six or seven years of age. The lack of accomimodation for these unfortunate people is tending to obstruct the percentage of recovering persons.
Tokio te-day only seven homes for the mentally unsound, and these, as already stated, are packed. Several remain in pri-vote homes or in the wooden "'barracks" wherein the homeless are to-day accommodated, and are being treated as out-door patients, although their condition is such that they should receive special treatment if they are to recover.
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