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'He is what we would call a very good attendant, who would not run away or flinch from any patient, but would try to have his orders carried out if possible'. Such was the view of William Coady, attendant to the insane in the British settler colony of Victoria, Australia in the 1870s.This book is a history of William Coady's occupation, a history asylum work and workers in nineteenth-century Australia. It considers not only who attendants were and why they worked in the asylum, but also how they and others variously defined 'the very good attendant'.Colonial asylum advocates imagined the atten

Cover -- Title Page -- About this Book -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Unfulfilled Promise -- 1. In the 'City of the Insane' (1867-87) -- 'The Maddest Place in the World' -- 'The Imbecile Class of the Insane' -- 'Susceptible of Instruction' -- An Asylum for 'Idiot Children' -- 2. 'Always a Curious Boy' (1887-1908) -- 'Incessant Attention' -- 'In Great Distress' -- 'Please Let Me Know How My Little Boy is Keeping' -- 3. 'For the Care and Training of Feeble-minded Children' (1887-1907) -- 'An Institution for the Care and Training of Feeble-minded Children' -- 'Herculean Difficulties' -- 'A Distinct Advance on Anything Yet Done for the Feeble-minded Children in Australia'? -- 'Results that Justify Its Continuance on the Present Scale' -- 4. 'Mental Defectives: A Serious Social Problem' (1907-24) -- 'An Up-to-Date Institution Elsewhere' -- 'Mental Defectives: A Serious Social Problem' -- 'An Indictment Against the Whole Community' -- 5. 'A New Deal for Mental Defectives' (1924-39) -- 'Dealing with the Menace of the Feeble-minded' -- 'I Just Did What I Was Told' -- 'Almost Like the Rock of Ages' -- 'A New Deal for Mental Defectives' -- 6. 'A Hillside of Sadness' (1939-50) -- 'Sorrowing Parents' -- 'A Hillside of Sadness' -- 'Our Out-dated Asylums' -- PART TWO: A Passion for Reform -- 7. Eric Cunningham Dax and the Reform of the Kew Children's Cottages (1951-60) -- Eric Cunningham Dax -- 'A Terrible Reproach to the Public Conscience' -- Getting to Work -- Untangling Mental Illness and Intellectual Disability -- 8. The Tipping Campaign and Public Support (1961-65) -- Fighting Red Tape -- Edmond William Tipping -- The Tipping Appeal -- Personal Stories of Residents of Kew Cottages -- 9. The Kew Cottages Parents' Association (1958-70) -- Origins of the Kew Cottages Parents' Association -- Early Days.

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