Corporate Body

Western Australian Mental Health Services (1954 - 1984)

State of Western Australia

From: 1954
To: 1984
Functions: Health Industry, Medical Care Provider and Regulatory Body
Reference No: State Records Office of WA Agency ID: AU WA A126

Summary

In 1954 the Mental Hospitals Department became the Western Australian Mental Health Services department. This shift likely reflects the move towards community based and patient treatment of mental health. In 1984 it merged with the Public Health Department of Western Australia (1911 - 1984) and the Department of Hospital and Allied Services (1981 - 1984) to form the Health Department of Western Australia (1984 - ).

Timeline

1950 - 1954 Western Australian Mental Hospitals Department
1954 - 1984 Western Australian Mental Health Services
1984 - Health Department of Western Australia

Superior

State of Western Australia (1901 - )

Published resources

Books

Ellis, Archie Samuel, Eloquent Testimony: the Story of the Mental Health Services in Western Australia 1830-1975 (Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 1984), 251 pp. Details

Resources

Mental health history in WA, North Metropolitan Health Service, Mental Health, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, http://www.nmahsmh.health.wa.gov.au/community/graylandshistory.cfm. Details
Hospitals and Health Records, State Records Office of Western Australia, Collection Guide, http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/archive-collection/collection/hospital-and-health-records. Details
Heathcote Cultural Precinct Museum Webpage, Heathcote Cultural Precinct, c.2018, https://www.heathcotewa.com/museum. Details

Resource Sections

'Mental Health Services', in Agency Details, State Records Office of Western Australia, Western Australian Government, https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/mental-health-services-au-wa-a126. Details
Rosser, Debra, 'Lunacy Act 1903', in Western Australia - Legislation, Find and Connect Project, 2016, https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/wa/biogs/WE00996b.htm. Details

Elizabeth Daniels

Created: 25 June 2019, Last modified: 2 March 2023

EOAS ID: biogs/P006447b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006447b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260