Mental Treatment Act, 1930: Temporary Patients

Mental Health Law: ‘Legalism’ and ‘Medicalism’ – ‘Old’ and ‘New’

“…4 For many clinicians, the meaning of this provision lacked clarity, accounting for a huge variation in its usefrom 34 per cent to 0 per cent. 5 Magistrates continued to be involved in overseeing compulsory hospital admissions. The Act authorised local authorities to set up psychiatric outpatient clinics in general and mental hospitals, but the hospital remained the focal point for psychiatric provision.…”