Book Section

Author

Gillgren, Christina

Title

Once a Defective, always a Defective: Public Sector Residential Care 1900-1965

In

Under blue skies : the social construction of intellectual disability in Western Australia

Editor

Errol Cocks

Imprint

Centre for Disability Research and Development, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 1996, pp. 53-91

Related Entries

Events

• Royal Commission appointed to inquire into alleged cases of brutality at the Claremont Mental Hospital, State of Western Australia (1950)

  p.76

• Royal Commission in Lunacy, State of Western Australia (1921 - 1922)

  pp.68-69

• Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly on the Mental Deficiency Bill (1929)

  pp.69-72

Glossary Terms

• Eugenics (1910s - 1950s)

  pp.65-67, 69-72, 76

• Intellectual Disability

  pp.72-73, 77, 84-85, 87

Legislation

• Lunacy Act 1903 (1903 - 1962)

  pp.63-64

• Mental Health Act 1962 (1962 - 1996)

  p.80, 82-83

Organisations

• Claremont Mental Hospital (1903 - 1972)

  pp.53, 56-58, 62-63, 77-79

• Earlsferry (1952 - 1989)
• Fairholme (1952 - 1984)
• Hawkevale (1957 - ?)

  p.77

• Heathcote (1929 - 1994)

  p.69

• Irrabeena (1961 - )

  p.77

• Slow Learning Children's Group (1951 - 1989)

  p.77

• Whitby Falls Hospital (1897 - 1972)

  pp.53, 56

Related Publications

isPartOf

• Cocks, Errol, Under blue skies : the social construction of intellectual disability in Western Australia, Centre for Disability Research and Development, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Edith Cowan University, Perth, 1996. Details

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• Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly on the Mental Deficiency Bill, Minutes and votes and proceedings of the Parliament ... with papers presented to both Houses., Western Australia Parliament, Government Printer, Perth, 1929. Details