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Tasmania - Archival Item

Mental Deficiency Board-List of Mental Defectives Transported to Mental Hospital (1935)

From
1935
To
1935
Website
http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=I&id=HSD1/1/2505
Reference No
HSD1/1/2505
Legal Status
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Item Number

Mental Deficiency Board-List of Mental Defectives Transported to Mental Hospital is a file created by the Department of Public Health. It provides the names of 36 people transferred to Lachlan Park Hospital from the Mental Defectives Home at St John's Park under section 35 of the Mental Deficiency Act 1920. The date of transfer is included. Some of the individuals had been discharged and the list also indicates that.

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Prepared by: Caroline Evans