Opening of Maudsley Hospital—A New Departure in the Treatment of Insanity

''"THE opening of the Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, by the Minister of Health, Sir A. GriffithBoscawen, is an event of the utmost importance in the history of mental institutions in this country. As our readers are aware, the hospital was founded and endowed by the late Dr. Henry Maudsley, and given by him to the London County Council, which becomes the first public authority in England to provide for the voluntary treatment of early types of mental disorder apart from certified cases. Hitherto those suffering from an early and recoverable type of mental trouble, if not possessed of ample means, have had no chance of treatment unless they became certifiable and were admitted into an asylum. At the