Book

Author

Ellis, A.S.

Title

Eloquent Testimony : the Story of the Mental Health Services in Western Australia, 1830-1975

Imprint

University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia, 1984

Description

Dr Archie Ellis was Director of Mental Health Services in Western Australia from 1963 to 1977. His book, 'Eloquent Testimony', charts the history of the mental health system and institutions in the State from colonisation to the mid-1970s.

Libraries Australia Catalogue Entry

http://nla.gov.au/andb.bib-an3125024

Related Entries

Concepts

• Colonial Surgeon (1830 - 1895)

  pp.28, 39

• Director of Mental Health Services (1966 - 1984)

  pp.129, 161

• Inspector General of Mental Hospitals (1947 - 1966)

  pp.105, 129

• Inspector General of the Insane (1904 - 1947)

  Please see chapters 4-7 for the life and times of the Inspectors-General; also pp.101, 105

• Principal Medical Officer (1895 - 1911)

  p.28, 39

• Superintending Medical Officer of Asylums (1901 - 1903?)

  p.28

Events

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

  pp.107-110

• Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to inquire into the condition of the Fremantle and Whitby Falls Lunatic Asylums, Colony of Western Australia (1900)

  pp.40-41

• Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly to consider and report as to what is necessary to place the Asylum for the Insane on a satisfactory basis as to Accommodation and Maintenance, Colony of Western Australia (1891)

  pp.35-37

• Select Committee to inquire into the management of the Claremont Hospital for the Insane (1919)

  pp.70-71

Glossary Terms

• Custodial Care [Intellectual Disability]

  p.87

• Eugenics (1910s - 1950s)

  p.54

• Intellectual Disability

  p.157

Legislation

• Lunacy Act 1871 (1871 - 1903)

  p.27

• Lunacy Act 1903 (1903 - 1962)

  p.129

• Mental Health Act 1962 (1962 - 1996)

  p.129

Organisations

• Claremont Mental Hospital (1903 - 1972)
• Earlsferry (1952 - 1989)
• Fairholme (1952 - 1984)
• Fremantle Asylum (1857 - 1909)

  pp. 40, 198

• Princess Margaret Hospital for Children (1909 - 2018)

  p.161

• Pyrton (1966 - 1997?)

  pp.139, 207

• Whitby Falls Hospital (1897 - 1972)

  pp.38-39

Related Publications

isRelated

• 'Council Tuesday 16 August 1966 [Hansard p326-327]', in Hansard Archive 1870 to 1995, Parliament of Western Australia, 16 August 1966, https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/Hansard/hansard1870to1995.nsf/83cc4ce93b5d4e0b48257b33001cfef6/58480BE3501FA45F48257A37002D5ED7/$File/19660816_Council.pdf. Details
• Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly appointed to inquire into the Condition of the Fremantle and Whitby Falls Lunatic Asylums, Western Australia: Votes and Proceedings, Government Printer, Perth, 1900. Details
• Report of the Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly to consider and report as to what is necessary to place the Asylum for the Insane on a satisfactory basis as to Accommodation and Maintenance, Western Australia: Votes and Proceedings, Government Printer, Perth, 19 February 1891. Details