N.S.W. MENTAL ASYLUMS
EXPERT CRITICAL OF CONDITIONS NEGLECT OF PATIENTS ALLEGED (Bee. 9.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 25. A world-renowned authority on mental diseases, brought from Canada a year ago by the New South Wales State Government as neurologist to New South Wales mental asylums, has resigned and left for San Francisco. He is Dr. William Gibson. Before leaving, Dr. Gibson accused the State Health Department of grossly neglecting the treatment of asylum inmates. He declared that a Royal commission should be appointed to investigate, and claimed that he had resigned because of lack of equipment. "There is absolutely no hope of persons committed to asylums in New South Wales benefiting from the latest medical discoveries overseas, as the equipment and facilities are nil,” he said. “In the present primitive conditions, a patient admitted to a New South Wales asylum has precious little chance of ever being cured.” Dr. Gibson said he was deeply distressed by the mentality of the directorate body which had tried to force him to say that conditions at the Callan Park Asylum were similar to those in Canada and the United States.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25739, 26 February 1949, Page 7
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