American Psychiatry and its Practical Bearings on the Application of Recent Local Government and Mental Treatment Legislation, Including a Description of the Author's Participation in the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene, Washington, D.C., May 5–10, 1930

1930 ◽  
Vol 76 (314) ◽  
pp. 456-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Lord
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Mental Hygiene ◽  
County Council ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Psychiatric Institutions ◽  
American Psychiatry ◽  
Mental Treatment

Dr. Petrie's paper is mainly descriptive of American psychiatric institutions, and deals only briefly in its conclusion with his impressions of American psychiatry in its various fields. My paper, however, deals principally with the latter subject and avoids the former as much as possible. It is also my duty to report on my mission as the representative of the London County Council and of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association at the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene.

The Police and Government

1970 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 190-190
Author(s):  
Laurence Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
County Council

We have invited Mr. Laurence Welsh, a former administrative officer with the London County Council, and a former secretary of its Staff Association, who writes for several local government papers, to contribute a monthly feature on police topics in central and local governmental circles.

The Fourteenth Maudsley Lecture: British Influences in Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene

1933 ◽  
Vol 79 (326) ◽  
pp. 435-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolf Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hygiene ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
British Science ◽  
American Psychiatry ◽  
Deep Sense

It was with a deep sense of responsibility and of gratitude alike that I accepted the invitation to address you as your fourteenth Maudsley Lecturer; a sense of responsibility through the thought that, in a way, I come as a representative of American psychiatry; a sense of sincere gratitude for an opportunity to acknowledge a real personal indebtedness to British science and British medicine and British psychiatry, partly for what I received myself in the long years since my early post-graduate work in this country forty-three years ago, and partly for the influence British thought and work and practice has had upon certain developments, for which it is a pleasure to express our indebtedness and appreciation. Some of these relations and connections are little realized and little appreciated, and yet very illuminating and by no means only personal.

The Maintenance of Pauper Lunatics

1897 ◽  
Vol 43 (182) ◽  
pp. 672-673
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
County Council ◽  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
Early Age ◽  
The West ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cumberland County ◽  
Definite Answer ◽  
Lunatic Asylums ◽  
The Government

The President of the Local Government Board received a deputation from the County Councils Association in reference to the growing burden imposed upon the rates by the increase of the number of persons confined in lunatic asylums. The deputation consisted of Sir John Hibbert, Lord Thring, Mr. Hobhouse, M.P., Sir E. Edgeumbe (Dorset), Mr. M. F. Blackiston (Clerk to the Staffordshire County Council), Mr. F. C. Hulton (Clerk to the Lancashire County Council), Mr. C. B. Hodgson (Clerk to the Cumberland County Council), Mr. Trevor Edwards (Solicitor to the West Riding County Council), and the Rev C. Royds, Mr. J. Brierley, Mr. B. Carver, and Mr. T. Scholfield, members of the Lancashire Asylums Board. The deputation recommended that the grant of 4s. a week at present given to Boards of Guardians to pay for pauper lunatics in County Asylums, Registered Hospitals, and Licensed Houses should also be given for chronic pauper lunatics (whom they defined as harmless lunatics), who are maintained in workhouse wards under special regulations and to the satisfaction of the Commissioners in Lunacy; that, as it is not desirable that idiots (idiots and imbeciles from birth or early age) should be treated in a lunatic asylum, the 4s. grant should, wherever idiots are kept at the public expense, be payable in regard to such idiots to the authority maintaining them to the satisfaction of the Commissioners in Lunacy; that each County Council should be required to appoint visitors of those idiots in respect of whom the 4s. grant is made, and who are kept in places other than lunatic asylums; and that it is not desirable to express an opinion on the question of extending the 4s. grant to idiots boarded out or maintained at home. Mr. Chaplin, in reply, said he was not prepared to give a definite answer as to whether he could advise the Government to bring in a Bill to give effect to the recommendations. He required time to consider the matter more fully, and especially to enquire how the Boards of Guardians throughout the country would be affected if the proposals of the County Councils Association became law.

A Moral/Ethical History of American Psychiatry

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald N. Grob
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Mental Hygiene ◽  
The United States ◽  
Novel Therapies ◽  
World War ◽  
Severe Mental Disorders ◽  
Moral Treatment ◽  
American Psychiatry ◽  
Fever Therapy ◽  
History Of

This article examines the moral/ethical dimensions of psychiatric practice in the United States. It begins with a historical overview of American psychiatry, from the establishment of mental hospitals and asylums to the emergence of institutionalization and the theory of moral treatment. It then turns to a discussion of nineteenth-century initiatives calling for an end to dual responsibility and for the state to assume sole responsibility for persons with severe mental disorders. It also looks at the rise of dynamic psychiatry in the early twentieth century, along with the mental hygiene movement and the introduction of novel therapies such as fever therapy, insulin, metrazol, lobotomy, psychosurgery, and electric shock therapies. Finally, the article considers the transformation of American psychiatry during and after World War II.

The London County Council Asylum at Claybury, and a Sketch of its first Working Year

1897 ◽  
Vol 43 (180) ◽  
pp. 47-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Jones
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
County Council ◽  
Building Site ◽  
The Hill

This is the first asylum of the London County Council and the fifth for London, and it stands on a hill 230 feet above ordnance datum in a freehold estate of 269 acres, one-and-a-half miles from Woodford Station, on the Great Eastern Railway. It is about nine miles from the Royal Exchange. The ground was bought by the Middlesex Justices for £39,415. They first visited the spot on 27th February, 1886, almost seven years before patients were received. About 70 acres of the ground is woodland, and the soil is clay with beds of gravel interspersed. The Justices proceeded to fence in the estate, build two lodges, lay down a granite tramway from these to the building site, and level the top of the hill, a plateau of about a dozen acres in extent, for all the central and some of the outside blocks, and also to complete the foundations, when the Local Government Act of 1888 transferred the care of lunatics and the management of County Asylums to the County Councils.

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