Sane man held in Royal Park Mental Hospital : revised report of public meeting held in the Reception Room of the Melbourne Town Hall, on Thursday, the 20th December, 1934, held under the auspices of the Welfare and After-Care Society for Mental Patients.
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Melbourne : Welfare and After-Care Society for Mental Patients, 1934.
Report of the meeting which discussed the detainment of Harold Gardener in the Royal Park Mental Hospital. Speakers included Reg S. Ellery and W.G. Higgs. The discussion also included the topic of the Department of Mental Health's administration, mental hospital auxiliaries, imprisoning husbands and wives, trial leave, photographing patients, twilight sleep, the idea that the Hospital is 90 per cent gaol and 10 percent hospital.
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"Resolutions, carried unanimously, requesting public inquiry into the Department of Mental Hygiene (formerly the Lunacy Department) ; and urging that trial leave be granted to Mr. Harold James Gardner."--Title page.
