The Royal Commission was chaired by Mr Justice Adrian H. Curlewis of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. It had been stimulated by articles in the Sunday Times newspaper and was specifically required to 'inquire into and report upon…alleged cases of brutality at the Claremont Mental Hospital, as published by the Sunday Times newspaper in its issues of the 12th and 19th February, 1950…'
The Royal Commissioner found that:
These findings were hotly contested by the Inspector General and in large part were not accepted by the government of the day, who proceeded to prosecute (unsuccessfully) the attendants named in the incidents. The Royal Commission did, however, prompt the government to implement the changes to the Lunacy Act 1903 that the Inspector General had recommended in 1949.
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