Excerpt from Canadian Journal of Mental Hygiene, Vol. 2: January, 1920-October, 1920 Admirable as the management of New Westminster is, yet those in charge have a task imposed on them that is unfair. They are forced to accept all mental types, from idiocy, and acute insanity. To senile dementia, and while they run the whole gamut from defect to far advanced disease, they have no means of making a proper classification. Owing to conditions of overcrowding, and want of space, the staff is asked to do the impossible. The demands of the modern hospital for the insane are quite as exacting as those of the general hospital, and until this fact is recognized no real progress can be made. It cannot be said that British Columbia has been penurious in making expenditures for the care of its insane; indeed, Essondale might be classed as having adopted too elaborate a type of construction. However. If a mistake was made it was on the right side of the account. Too frequently the tendency is to run to the opposite extreme, and many structures of cheap and shoddy construction are inadequate for the purpose designed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.