1958-04-19 — Page 7

AH! THE HOLIDAY..

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1958.

by CUMMINGS

THIS is the Gin

GORDONS

DRY GIN

Tomeu mastāvu kui palin

Li Pintura

What a koy it is to bang the door on the daily round, the familiar scent....

the ... 10 savour Bovelly of Continen-

tal plumbing. . .

to experience the pleasures of

totally differ

to

adventure with a foreign Pharmacy.

"Why am I hero?"

ent diel....

"You are here for one of the three following-reasons: either you have asked us to treat you, because you feel that it is necessary. This is called "Free Service” and you may ask for your release at any time.

"Or you are here because a doctor or a member of your family has asked us to treat you in your own interest: This is called 'Voluntary Confinement' and it is up to the chief doctor here to determine your release,

"Or you are here because you have been brought here by the police in the interest of yourself and society. This is called 'Official Confinement' and the Profect. of Police determines your release after consultation with the chief doctor."

THE

"

to appreciate the piquancy of not need- Ing heating In April, on the Mediterranean

chore...

But, oh! What greater joy to reopen the door of one's, daily round--with its English plumb- ing, stoday cooklag. English heat- log. the dear old medicine cap- board and all)

PSYCHIATRY

And No BARS

By

JOHN IZBICKI, China Mail Special Writer in Paris

thing, that he is trusted to was a great style in his

In this power of imagination. own a document. booklet he find the reasons why he is in a hospital,

cRae,

own

or curtain. The patient has hin wardrobe, his own bock- shelf. This is perhaps the big- gest revolution in the case.

All the doors are open. Any

ZAZATI BARROSSOSOLOMONSOON CORSAROSSERO NA

The features were negroid above is a very rending a report made ro - "It has been a very hard short extract from a cently by the World Health fight, up-hill most of the what sort of a hospital it flat nose, thick lips. The

the is, who his doctors are, the lips were parted slightly in patient may leave or "escape" if Organisation. This is what time," he told me.

and, also ITE I wishes to do BO, but he 14-page booklet which is the report had to say: wanted to show France that nungs of his nurses, when every case

he can receive visitors and, every

the slanting never does. He knows he is ́handed to every mental-

one can cure derangements above ail, he discovers that eyes were closed. I asked there to be helped and submits "Ten years ago in

Ville of the mind ly sick patient who

through Evrard, France, the average humane methods."

he readily to the treatment. There he is at liberty to breathe the patient whether

producing these are no bars to the windows. enters

the fresh air of nature and liked the ever-open star of (mental) patients

Doctors, nurses and patients cre gates of the Ville before discharge was over

He described. these is not locked up in a cell masks.

-on-Christian...nome terms with. with burs, Evrard

Psychiatric one

If a me.

one another. The whole mokes year. Now it is four methods

formt) Hospital on the out- months.

a friendly, homely, hospital, lunatic" is brought into This skirts of Paris.

atmosphera which in 1918 had 550 beds his hospital by the polico, 100 new for instance, and is wearing On the cover of the and admitted

has a strait-jacket, it is "im- patients a year, now book is the patient's only 270 beds but gives mediately removed and the name--printed by the care to 600 new patients a patient is made to feel that

to

The way back

After observation and

various courges to re-

treatment he is put through

hospital's own printing year and the percentage of the last thing he should habilitate him for the out-

Indefinitely has gone down

"Oh, yes," he said.

"But it

is very dime to do, you know.

I cannot open the eyes yet, but I shall one day!*

.

"He is making very good pro

moved on

The way out ·

press a press that is patients-that-must-be kept-wear-is-something-that-im-alde world, a world-which;-to-be-popular among all the hospital-helps-flnd-him-s-jobr

the supervision of one male nurse. The cover”

Freedom-

prisons

ات

res Dr Sivadon said as we

After the patient is well Mademoiselle Tournaud proved enough to be released, the him. This is the day by day, moves nearer with each one of them.

patients. She stopped to chat and during the first three manned entirely by from 50 per cent to 7 per arst stage in making the to him.

They montha of his carning, time he came-lo har to shake hands and is able to live FREE OF mental patients under cent."

Mademoiselle CHARGE have a laugh. patient feel at home, as it

the In the first class (un Susanne Tournoud is in charge excellent,

hospital's modern, recently- were. Generally this move airy gymnasium) an in- of the paychology section of the established hostel some four to give freedom works structor had grouped hospital.

miles from the actual hospital. wonders. The patient re- around hini a semi-circle of "I have been here for Lon

Now look at some of the In those few words, cold taxes, no longer the caged sitting patients. The

years," she told me, "ever slice statistics. At Dr Sivedion's

are at present:" been specially printed ly written in for Monsieur X by his national organisation's re- animal that he was a few patients had only arrived hospital opened. Now I feel hopital there

there recently. Each re- it is hard to leave. We enjoy One Chief Doctor, 2 pasistants, our work so much, and, you story moments before,

irterns (student doctors), i presented a desperate case

know, a lot of the patients-eychiatrist 1 physiotherapist, comrades at the hospital rarely to be found in the

hypochrondria, schizo come back and ask for the 20 re-education monitors and He is then, given the who wish him Welcome, annals of medical history.

or sexual mania. Geor who treated them 100 KATIES. booklet which I have al- phrenia

-they- -were--slclánu.... Courage and Get Well

The man responsible for ready mentioned. However They aut there dumb and when

unconscious of just to have a le chat. They. powerless, Soon."

it all is suave, bespectacled

all of them

this week after don.

of the rose-coloured booklet reads: "This has

port, lies

271 inter-

a succes3

of

I went along to Ville 61-year-old Dr Paul Siva Bick he is, he feels that he anything around them, in- little book we are ceep that

is in possession of some- cluding each other.

Evrard

On the night that Nelson

lost his nerve

A sluggish, and litter more what had put

The instructor throw

a

un~

ค

they come in. It is sometimes their most treasured possession."__

Diabolos

This is a total of 134 staff.

The number of patients: 250.

In the surrounding hospitals, one doctor and une Resistant with a handful of nurses look after 500.patients.

I read a copy about 130 days. It is a record

0.00

but the longer I live_around_fur football to each of them in and feather the less 1 believe it turn. They were to throw Up to that point the sky had the ball back to him. Some

The average slay of a patient been clear. The lights from did this readily enough. ] saw the printing press in 1938 was 300 days. Today isolated farms and small-hold-

Their the average stay has fallen to Ings up and down the valley Others let the ball roll to where patients produce

own magazine. one, unul the ground, unable even to and could not believe that the of which Dr Sivadon may well blinked out one by mine alone glawed in fullle hold it. I spent half an writers were any more abnormal be proud. Eighty per cent of competition with the stars and a hour watching the instruc- than you or I.”

In the wood his casts arr released fully bright half moon,

tor persevering in his task. work close I was surprised to cured.. while acolher ten per

sce patients using sharp tools.

cent are transferred into family I heard the rhythmic wing-Soon even the most

carc (i.e., partially cured): beat of a pair of swans flying | conscious

what you of the patients "I can see S the year grows colder the wild things get more along the river and wondered

was making an attempt to thinking." Dr Sivadon laughed about eight per cent are chronie "But they do not injure. them- cases and only 1.5 have died in they wouldn't fly by night return the ball.

selves. Oh yes, they are all in the past year. warmed the day up a bit before starting the desperate because accidents have becn

advanced or Deasonably search for food to keep them alive.

known to happen. Some time This is the first stage," advanced stage of Insanity. Yet ago, on a pitch-black night, explained Dr Sivadon. "The they feel that they hava va How do I know? Bo- 24 that would otherwise be couple landed on the TRIN-Wet

these are their tools. It'they' cause, all the year round, wasted in sleep-a clear gain road, doubtless mistaking it for patient must be re-taught responsible task to perform and

a nearby canal.

the sense of touch. He wanted to cut their veins, they must Icart what it is like would go and search for some- They left a long trail at One night, quite early, the feathers on the road

to feel an object. After a thing quite diferent, but they comes up like n ball of fire cwis were out in force, Booting scen

and were

wadding while, two balls will be would never use the tools with which they have been trusted,””. or is shrouded by dripping and hunting, which indicates grumplly down to the canal. For used. Aa the instructor grey clouds.

that even on cold nights there the rest of the year, it is said, throws one to the patieift, There is a bar and a wonder-

they stuck to swimming.

In the bar (a) the patient throws another dul cardeen For thousands of years poets

proper bar with high stools and to the instructor."

little tables) ono can buy coffee, have sung the glory of the

ten, minerals and a curious coming day, and they'll con

-drink called. "Diabolos," for 20

francs epch (4d.).

I see two dawns out of a month's life in every year., three, whether the sun

are mice about.

of

At about bedume Nelson the ratter was called in, so up the

tinue to do so as long as the drive sauntered that exasperat- human race endures, But my ing little cat, taking his time as reason—although I love the cats will down as the best part of the day

---is more prosaic.

A

nexi

day

Died away....

Slowly the powerful wing- Beals died away, and soon I heard a little wind moen up the But suddenly a sllent shape valley, soft but menacing. Then My restless Imagination used of ghostly white swooped down the owls fell silent and the to give me insomnia until, some

from the stable weathercock and moon clouded over, no more to

appear that night.". years ago, I worked straight skimmed over Nelson, almost through for 24 hours and then brushing him. slept without stirring for 12.

Their Art

and

"It is the only place where they need to spend money," I There are art classes, was told. "It gives them the sculpture, woodwork, gar- sense of handling coine doning, etc. I spoke with makes them feel important. one patient. He had been at

"The skobolics drink Diabolos The rain started to fall, and the hospital just a little over harmloss mineral) mixed there wasn't a thing to be seen three months. Ho had with a dath of lemon, because atrastie acreech and lamp on the raindrops, the

In the can!cutt, strong liqu

is

As the kitten got into top gear or heard save the plint of my farrived ag'a violent schizo-"it koks similar to Pornod, a

by insomnia vanished when with I started this routine regularly, stemmed the clutch in, the great steady patter on the root, and phrenic, a man who was the alcoholle is given large 28 hours up (not all of them barn owl zoomed up to a purch the rising roar of our Hilo obsessed with the notion bottle of mitional water with his working-hours) and ten in bod.

And I estimate that this time-

fable gains me two hours in the

-UP COUNTRY--by

THURLOW CRAIG-

on top of the walnut tree. brook as it ran ever faster and that be was a prince, but monis. The others ›get – heifən

bigger down the mountainside.

Nelson streaked to safety with

that no one loved him.

Then carne' the dawn. When-

a tall like a duo-brach and his 1: had started things: In thej

glam-of-win.. This, gives the alcoholic a worse flat to Imm Jarore then the others and can oglase to his even offer

nose deathly pale, while the owl kitchen, reuswod the suct on the Now, hero was this mun, gave a short hoot of indulgent line, and thrown some broad a six-footer of 84 years, 'unfortunate friends.” derision and flow, away on silent oultide, only then, did the tie producing paintings and wings.

and sparrows venture forth sculpting masks. He had. The wards or dormitoris are from their dry houses into the that a soned of humouring the food bat was already paint brush or u'piece of minitories Each pod

There are wine who maintain cruel, cold day, angrily demand never before touched a not so barrack-like arcire wal Eimlled. to, the human : animal, waiting for, thamang

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