title: Lessons from history: the first 25 years of psychiatric hospitals in South Australia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this paper is to examine an 1862 report of the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum and commentary on its establishment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Many of the administrative issues surrounding psychiatric practice then remain pertinent today.
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. robert.goldney@adelaide.edu.au
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goldney
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D013021:South Australia