Paper: Leader - Progress Press (Melbourne, Australia)
Title: Letters
Date: August 30, 2005
Plea to save
cottage land
"Asylum to
community" was a book sponsored
by the World Federation for Mental Health and launched in New York in
1961.
On pages 124-126 there is an illustrated account of the dreadful
conditions at the Kew Cottages.
Publicity
given by a sympathetic press resulted in a public appeal, individual
donations and extensive support from service groups.
Organisations,
including the Kew Cottages Parents Association, and the Retarded
Children Organisation gave enormous help towards the reforms of the
cottages.
I would urge each of these groups to apply pressure on
the government to have a judicial inquiry into the sale of the Crown
land.
Dr Cunningham Dax
former chairman of the Victorian
Mental Health Authority,
Balwyn North.
Copyright, 2005, Nationwide News Pty Limited
