Psychiatric Diagnosis in New South Wales Compared to England and Wales

1975 ◽  
Vol 127 (6) ◽  
pp. 556-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Parker

SummaryComparative studies of first admission rates to psychiatric hospitals have revealed significant differences in the rates of diagnoses of functional psychoses between the United Kingdom and the United States of America.The present study examined the diagnoses of indigenous patients born between 1921 and 1955 and first admitted to hospitals in New South Wales, Australia, and England and Wales. Admission rates for mania were in striking agreement. The rate in New South Wales for schizophrenia was slighdy higher and for psychotic depression considerably less than in England and Wales.A similar trend in diagnostic dissonance would appear to exist between England and Wales and New South Wales as between England and Wales and the United States for schizophrenia and psychotic depression, but this is considerably less in degree.

1956 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. I. Sommerville

The nematode Trichostrongylus longispicularis was described by Gordon (1933) from a single male recovered from a sheep in New South Wales. Gordon considered that the male of this species could be readily distinguished from the males of other species of the genus recorded from ruminants by an asymmetrical dorsal ray of the bursa and by the length and form of the spicules. The dorsal ray is described as being bifid, one bifurcation being simple and the other possessing secondary branches, one situated internally and the other externally. The slender spicules were 184·6 microns long, and terminated in fine sickle-shaped structures.Andrews (1934 and 1935) recorded the species from cattle in the United States. In his first description (Andrews, 1934) he noted that his specimens agreed very closely with the description published by Gordon (1933), but he referred to hook-like projections on the spicules. However, he failed to find these projections in the specimen discussed in his record of 1935. As he made no reference to the dorsal ray of the bursa, it is presumed that this agreed with the description and figure published by Gordon (1933). T. longispicularis was subsequently reported by Roberts (1938 and 1939) from cattle in Queensland, but no comments were made on its morphology.


2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
John Stuart ◽  
Ian Welch

AbstractHistorians of colonial Australia have long been fascinated by the effects of religious change on urban New South Wales and Victoria in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This period, it is generally acknowledged, was one of evangelical revival amongst Anglicans and nonconformists alike. Well known (and sometimes world-renowned) evangelists from Great Britain and the United States invariably included cities such as Sydney and Melbourne on their international itineraries. But the local evangelical presence was strong; and this article focuses on William Henry Fitchett, a Melbourne-based evangelical Methodist clergyman who has largely escaped the attention of historians of religion. The reason he has done so is because he achieved fame in a rather different field: as a popular author of imperial histories and biographies. His published works sold in the hundreds of thousands. Yet he also wrote many serious works on religious matters. This article places Fitchett in the context of evangelical mission and revival within and beyond Australia, while also paying due attention to the influence of religion on his writing career. Les historiens de l'Australie coloniale ont longtemps été fascinés par les effets des transformations religieuses dans le monde urbain de New South Wales et Victoria durant le dernier quart du 19e siècle. Cette période est généralement considérée comme ayant été celle d'un Réveil évangélique parmi les Anglicans et les non-conformistes. Des évangélistes connus (et parfois mondialement connus) venus de Grande Bretagne et des Etats-Unis incluaient invariablement dans leurs périples internationaux des villes comme Sydney et Melbourne. Mais la présence évangélique locale était aussi forte, et cet article se concentre sur un pasteur de l'Eglise Méthodiste évangélique basé à Melbourne, William Henry Fitchett, qui a largement échappé à l'attention des historiens de la religion. La raison en est qu'il s'est rendu célèbre dans un domaine autre que religieux, à savoir comme auteur populaire d'histoires et biographies impériales. Les travaux qu'il a publiés se sont vendus par centaines de milliers d'exemplaires, mais il a aussi écrit des œuvres sérieuses sur des questions de religion. Le présent article replace Fitchett dans le contexte de la mission évangélique et du Réveil en Australie et au-delà, tout en se penchant sur la question de l'influence de la religion sur sa carrière d'auteur.


Plant Disease ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Pares ◽  
L. V. Gunn ◽  
E. N. Keskula ◽  
A. B. Martin ◽  
D. S. Teakle

A carlavirus was found to be widespread in commercial passionfruit (Passiflora edulis) plantings in New South Wales and Queensland. The particles observed were flexuous rods with mean dimensions of 651 × 12 nm. The particles often occurred in cells as aggregates but were never associated with pinwheel inclusion bodies, as is typical with passionfruit woodiness potyvirus. The particles showed a strong affinity (by immunoelectron microscopy) for antiserum prepared against Passiflora latent carlavirus (PLV) from Germany but increasingly less affinity for antisera against potato viruses S and M and PLV from the United States. Survey results indicated that PLV has been present in Australian passionfruit for more than 10 years and is widespread in most commercial cultivars in New South Wales and Queensland. The virus was twice found in wild Passiflora suberosa, once in wild P. subpeltata, and once in a feral seedling of P. edulis near an infected planting of P. edulis.


1986 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 271-272
Author(s):  
Col Bembrick ◽  
Jeff Byron ◽  
David Phipps

The New South Wales Branch of the British Astronomical Association is currently making use of the Sydney Observatory astrograph for cometary astrometry. Astrometric plates (16 × 16 cm) of P/Halley are being taken at a plate scale of 116 arcsec/mm with a field of 5 × 5 degrees. Plate measuring is accomplished by means of a mechanical single screw Hilger measuring machine. Plate reduction utilises the program supplied by the International Halley Watch organisation. Measurement and reduction is facilitated by the machine readable catalogue and plotting routines supplied by the United States Naval Observatory. Currently the BAA observing team is working towards achieving a 24 hr turnaround for plate reductions. This will enable useful contributions to be made during the critical pre-encounter periods.


2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber Marks

Since the introduction of the Human Rights Act 1998 in the United Kingdom, a significant expansion in the use of drug detection dogs, the most common tool of olfactory surveillance, has taken place with relatively little debate, without specific legislative authority and in the absence of a code of practice. In contrast, the use of the dogs in New South Wales, Australia and in the United States has been the subject of Supreme Court decisions, and in New South Wales, of parliamentary legislation and an independent review by the New South Wales Ombudsman. This paper will argue that the difficult legal issues raised by olfactory surveillance are similar to those raised by other forms of 'new surveillance' in the criminal justice system and that the failure of the legal system to deal with these issues in the case of olfactory surveillance could amount to a dangerous precedent for the regulation of other surveillance technologies.


Conodonts have been studied intensively for the last twenty years in the United States, but little attention has been paid to them in Britain. Digestion in acetic acid of some of the Lower Palaeozoic limestones of England and Wales has revealed the presence of at least four faunas. Conodonts from the Llandeilo Limestone of South Wales, the Gelli-grin and Pen-y-garnedd Limestones of North Wales and the Aymestry Limestone of Staffordshire and Shropshire are described. Four new genera, Balognathus , Holodontus , Icriodella and Sagittodontus , and a number of new species are described, and the conodont faunas are compared with those of a similar age from the United States. The value of the conodonts as index fossils is discussed.


1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Whitton

The Regular Classroom Practices Survey (RCPS) was conducted to determine the extent to which gifted and talented students received differentiated education in the regular classroom across New South Wales. This research paralleled work recently completed in the United States of America. The survey focused on information on the teachers, their classrooms and regions. Classroom practices, in relation to the curriculum modifications for gifted and average students, were analyzed. The survey sample was drawn from the three sectors of education, Government, Catholic and Independent schools, within the ten regions of New South Wales. This included 401 third and fourth grade teachers in government schools, 138 teachers in Catholic schools and 67 teachers in independent schools. The research questions that guided this study were: (1) Do teachers modify the curriculum content to meet the needs of gifted students? (2) Do teachers modify their instructional practices for gifted students? (3) Are there any organizational variations in planning to meet the educational needs of gifted children? (4) Are there differences in the types of regular classroom services provided for gifted students in relation to the type of school or region?


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