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Some problems in the management of residents in psychiatric hostels in Western Australia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018
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In the wake of legislation overseas, Western Australia promulgated a new Mental Health Act in 1966, paving the way for the establishment of private psychiatric hostels in the community and the discharge from mental hospitals of many chronically ill, long-stay patients.
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