"An account of the care of the mentally ill in Victoria, from the time of first settlement to the beginning of the present century"--P. [2]
Maps on lining papers. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 243.
Contents include: Cussen 1837-1849 p11. Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum p14. Watson and Sullivan 1849-52 p18. Bowie and McCrae 1852-62 p27. Accommodation and its problems p32. Patient care and management p41. Harcourt Sep 1862 to Feb 1863 p63. Paley 1863-83 p66. Temporary or branch lunatic asylums p75. Collins Street p76. Royal Park p77. ‘Cremorne’ (private) p78. Carlton p81. New, permanent institutions, and provision at general hospitals p84. Ararat p85. Beechworth p88. Kew p95. Lunacy wards: Castlemaine, Geelong, Bendigo, Wood’s Point, Sale p107. Problems of classification, and special institutions p109. Inebriates: Northcote Inebriate Retreat p116. Mental defectives: Ballarat p117. Sunbury p119. Thomas Thompson Dick, Inspector of Lunatic Asylums 1883-94 p133. The Zox Commission p135. Additional special institutions p145. Child imbeciles: Kew Cottages p145. ‘St Aidan’s’ (private) p154. Criminal lunatics: Gaol Ward, Ararat p155. Inebriates: Northcote and Beaconsfield p156. Legislative and administrative changes p158. Increased provision for general patients p160. Re-opening of Ballarat p162. Introduction of the boarding-out system p162. Dr James Vernon McCreery 1894-1905 p167. Patients p168. Private or paying patients p171. Staff p171. Nursing p172. Training p173. Medical p175. Training p178. Suggestions, and need for reform p178. Addendum: a chronological summary of developments from 1905-1952 p195. ‘Our lunatic asylums’: record of experiences of a month in Kew and Yarra Bend by ‘B’ p208. Medical staff: complete list of the medical staff who served within the Department, from the time of its commencement at Yarra Bend in 1848 to the completion of this story on the arrival of Dr Jones in the year 1905 p236. Lectures and publications on insanity p239. Incidence of insanity in Victoria (table) p241. Bibliography p243. Index p244.