Grain growers guide 19081928 erna kurbegovic and colette leung. It meant local unions of parishes building larger workhouses. Mental health amendment act 2015 comes into operation. Alberta passes amendment to the mental defectives act of alberta. Further amendments to the act expanded criteria lo. Chronological and alphabetical bibliographies of lunacy. Much of the bill was uncontroversial, including clauses that reorganised mental health. The only surviving records prior to 1835 is a sessions book, apr 1724sep 1746 ref. Eugenics at the edges of empire new zealand, australia.
Mental hospitals, 1910s to 1930s te ara encyclopedia of new. Yet new zealanders were apparently ambivalent about embracing eugenics, notably never enacting an explicitly eugenic sterilization law. In 1928, the legislative assembly of alberta, canada, enacted the sexual sterilization act. Its full title was an act to consolidate certain acts relating to the care and control of mentally defective persons and to the administration of their estates. She argues there was little consensus over how eugenic marriage was to be achieved, while eugenists struggled to gain public approval for their proposed interventions, reflected in the rejection of clause 21, which set prohibitions on marriage, from inclusion in the mental defectives amendment act 1928.
It proposed an institutional separation so that mental defectives should be taken out of. Institutionalization and pronatalist social policies were favoured in new zealand. Much of the bill was uncontroversial, including clauses that re. The international churchill society ics, founded in 1968 shortly after churchills death, is the worlds preeminent member organisation dedicated to preserving the historic legacy of sir winston churchill. The 1834 poor law amendment act replaced the old poor law with a national system for dealing with the relief of the. Section 381 of the act is amended by deleting the words 36 and 37 and substituting the words 36, 37 and 37a. An act to provide for and promote the welfare, protection and care of children and young persons. An act to amend sections eighteen and one hundred and nine of the childrens welfare act 1928. Section 441 of the act is amended by inserting after the word patient the following words who. An act to amend the mental health act 1959 and for connected purposes.
In 1933 she sought reelection as president of the wdfu but was unsuccessful, partly because she was opposed by a group of women eugenicists who were keen to reinstate the dropped clauses of the 1928 mental defectives amendment act and saw polson as a threat to their aims. In 1928, the alberta government passed the sexual sterilization act, which created a eugenics board to force those soon to be released from mental hospitals to be sterilized against their will as a condition of their release. Bill 31, mental health amendment act, 2007 passed first reading in the legislature on tuesday, april 17, 2007. A book for family welfare and safety leslie baker, colette leung, and amy. The mental deficiency act 19 was an act of the united kingdom which made provisions for the institutional treatment of people deemed to be feebleminded and moral defectives.
Sesquicentennial distinguished professor hamish spencer, our. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. This contains details of cases relating to maintenance and settlement. Mental health amendment act 2015 irish statute book. Alberta passes amendment to the mental defectives act of alberta amy dyrbye. Societies free fulltext bodily practices as vehicles for.
Nevertheless, the 1928 mental defectives amendment bill originally. It situates the 1924 inquiry into mental defectives and sexual offenders in new zealand and the sterilization debate of the 1930s as representative of womens role as both the agents and subjects of eugenics in this period. A 1928 amendment to this act anticipated separate training institutions for intellectually handicapped patients. Churchill and eugenics the international churchill society. Suggestions and plans relating to the arrangement of institutions for mental defectives board of control. An act to provide for the separation of the sydney harbour trust accounts from the consolidated revenue fund. Under the mental defectives amendment act 1928 it became the mental health department. The mental defectives act 1911 defined six classes of mentally defective person for whom a degree of oversight, care or control was deemed necessary. The aim was that mental hospitals would replace the discredited asylum model by acquiring the therapeutic status and public acceptability of general hospitals. Find out more about the project at soldiers of empire. A distinction was made between psychotic persons and mentally defective. Originally the 1928 act included two controversial clauses that were dropped. Experts could be powerful, for example dr theodore gray, the head of the mental hospitals department, who recommended the sterilization of the mentally unfit, which became clause 25 in the 1928 bill.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the mental health amendment act 1982. The sexual sterilization act the act was passed in 1928 and revised in 1937 and again in 1942. The words mentally defective person in this act shall mean and include any person afflicted with mental deficiency from birth, or from an early age, so pronounced that he. The story of the mental defectives amendment act of 1928. Likewise, in his book entitled constructive eugenics and rational marriage. Alberta passes amendment to the mental defectives act of. Nzlii databases new zealand acts as enacted mental defectives amendment act 1928 19 geo v 1928 no 23. Mental health amendment act 1982 1982 chapter 51 c. Bill 31 mental health amendment act cmha alberta division. Only a magistrate could order people to be received or detained by mental hospitals. The group emphasized wellraised and genetically superior children as the hope for a future utopian society. At that time, eugenicists argued that mental illness, mental retardation.
The report of the royal commission, published in 1908 as the radnor report, was in turn the main influence on the 19 mental deficiency act, which was the first legislation by the british government specifically related to services for people with learning disabilities. In 1928 parliament voted for the mental defectives amendment act, which allowed for the indefinite isolation of undesirable breeders in psychiatric hospitals homosexuals, the physically or. The canadian mental health association, alberta division will take every advantage to provide feedback to the government of alberta on the proposed changes in the upcoming months. Nevertheless, the 1928 mental defectives amendment bill originally contained a clause. Be it enacted by the general assembly of new zealand in parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows. The act put institutions under an inspectorgeneral. The 1919 mental defectives act of alberta, canada is amended to the 1923 mental defectives amendment act, which offers a redefinition of the term, mentally defective person. Despite the committees recommendation, a formal sterilization programme was never established in new zealand, although it was considered under the mental defectives amendment act 1928. This act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation. Eugenics at the edges of empire is a judicious introduction to the subject and expands the readers appreciation for the international scope of eugenics. Nevertheless, the 1928 mental defectives amendment bill originally contained a clause providing for sterilisation on eugenic grounds. Nevertheless, the 1928 mental defectives amendment bill originally contained a clause providing for sterilization on eugenic grounds. I this act may be cited as the mental defectives amendment act, 1928, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the mental defectives act.
Alberta passes sexual sterilization act database eugenics archives. Mental defectives amendment act 1928 19 geo v 1928 no 23. Against this backdrop, the reform government introduced the mental defectives amendment act in 1928. I this act may be cited as the mental defectives amendment act, 1928, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the. Be it enacted by the general assembly of new zealand in parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,as follows. Alberta, the province in which michener center was situated, instituted an involuntary sterilization programme under the alberta sterilization act that operated between 1928 and 1972, sterilizing almost 3,000 people, most of them deemed to be mental defectives. The 1834 poor law amendment act and the new poor law the 1834 poor law amendment act replaced the old poor law with a national system for dealing with the relief of the poor. She served on the wdfu financial committee in 1935.
Mental deficiency act 19 wikimili, the free encyclopedia. In 2014 charlotte macdonald was awarded a 3year marsden grant for her project tinker, tailor, soldier, settler. In this act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified act amends the act so specified. Access the collection is the online catalogue to prov records. This catalogue provides advice on finding particular records in provs collection, performs searches for physical and digital records based on their descriptions in provs archival control data, allows for the download of digital records on open access, and allows registered users to order physical records for viewing at prov. The act, drafted to protect the gene pool, allowed for sterilization of mentally disabled persons in order to prevent the transmission of undesirable traits to offspring. The high point of new zealand eugenics was the mental defectives amendment act in 1928, which established a eugenics board. Mental health act 18 of 1973rsa police official means any member of the force as defined in section 1 of the police act, 1958 act no.
It situates the 1924 inquiry into mental defectives and sexual. At a time when leadership is challenged at every turn, that legacy looms larger and. Mental defective definition of mental defective by medical. I this act may be cited as the mental defectives amendment act, 1928, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the mental defectives act, 1911 hereinafter referred to as the principal act. I outline the history of the drafting of this clause and its subsequent failure to gain parliamentary approval, before suggesting possible reasons for this course of events.
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