The New South Wales Inebriates Act: going, going, gone?
OBJECTIVE
To describe how the use of psychiatric hospitals as institutions for inebriates came about in New South Wales.


CONCLUSIONS
A so-called 'temporary' solution to a political problem in 1929 led to the psychiatric hospitals in New South Wales becoming repositories for inebriates for the next 75 years. This unsatisfactory situation may be about to change.
Shea
Peter
P
The Kestrel Unit, Morisset Hospital, Morisset, NSW, Australia. peter.shea@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au
D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D009517:New South Wales / Q000453:epidemiology; D013695:Temperance / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence