New York, March 6—An increase in insanity is the result of the radio, jazz and poor liquor, Dr. Isham Harris, superintendent of the Brooklyn State Hospital for the Insane, said at a luncheon of the Lion’s Club today. Radios have been eliminated from hospitals for the insane, he said, because they have an irritating effect on mental cases.
Dr. Harris said prohibition caused insane commitments in Brooklyn to increase since 1922 from less than two to more than five per cent. Dancing and flapper affairs, he added, tend to create an abnormal mentality in a boy or girl.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, March 7,1925
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