title: The New South Wales Inebriates Act: going, going, gone?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: The Kestrel Unit, Morisset Hospital, Morisset, NSW, Australia. peter.shea@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shea
mesh_terms: 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