Mentally ill
Lunatics and asylums - Correspondence and papers
Date: 1807-1814
From: Wakefield family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-9512-32
Description: Correspondence, Select committee reports, bills and other papers relating to the treatment of lunatics in England Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Lunatics and asylums - Correspondence
Date: 1814, 1816
From: Wakefield family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-9512-31
Description: Correspondence relating to the Lunatic Bill and accounts of meetings at house of William Fry concerning this; also, correspondence from E S Matthews over death of Mrs Matthews at Bethlehem Hospital (1816) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Interview with Ann Nicholls
Date: 4 July 1993 - 04 Jul 1993
From: Women in a Mining Town, Waihi 1883-1993, Oral History Project
By: Nicholls, Ann Ellen, 1930-
Reference: OHInt-0067/014
Description: Ann Nicholls born in England. Recalls being evacuated twice during Battle of Britain and describes bombing and experience of air-raid shelters - lost all possessions. Came to New Zealand with husband 1973 on the `Australis' and describes work at National Bank in Wellington before moving to Waihi. Describes inconvenience caused by mining - reference to the Resource Management Act which means the existing mining licence can now be appealed against. Recalls being an original objector to mining licence and gives reasons for objections. Describes involvement with Ohinemuri Earthwatch Committee. Discusses interest in mental health and talks about support group in Waihi. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Venue - Waihi Other - Interview with Joan Boggiss is on side 2 (OHC-005836B) Interviewer(s) - Rose MacBeth Venue - Waihi Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005836A; OHV-0264A Quantity: 1 C90 cassette(s). 1 videocassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 45 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available AB-1243.
Interview with Rita McEwan
Date: 6 January 1995 - 06 Jan 1995
From: NZ Nursing Education and Research Foundation : the transfer of nursing education from hospitals to polytechnics
By: McEwan, Rita, 1918-2006
Reference: OHInt-0520/04
Description: In this interview Rita McEwan reviews positions held immediately prior to taking up that of Matron at Porirua Psychiatric Hospital. Gives background in teaching and international work in psychiatric nursing. Discusses the transition of nursing education to polytechnics and the response of psychiatric hospital staff to the transition. Explains that the three year course in psychiatric nursing was not recognised by the Nurses' and Midwives Board and how the register was upgraded, curriculum improved and new exam set by Nurses and Midwives Board in the 1950s. Interviewer(s) - Yvonne Langridge Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006521; OHLC-003631 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1942.
Doyle, Martin, 1956- : [Prison or psychiatric care?]. 27 August 2014
Date: 2014
From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons
By: Scoop (Firm)
Reference: DCDL-0029229
Description: Accompanying note from the cartoonist states, "The current discussion of where best to house a mentally retarded offender (in jail or in 'care'?) has remarkable similarities to the discussion on the fate of our politicians in the coming Election. Cartoon depicts PM John Key." Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Hubbard, James, 1949- :"Cunliffe is a moron!". 4 September 2014
Date: 2014
From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons
By: Dominion post (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0029265
Description: Depicts Justice Minister Judith Collins in a strait jacket labelled 'Dirty politics scandal' claiming that Labour Party leader David Cunliffe is a moron. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
Patient/psychologist 3 legged race. "So tell me Nigel, how are you feeling?" 6 November...
Date: 2004
From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0006326
Description: Shows a psychiatric hospital patient participating with his psychologist in a three legged race. His psychologist asks him how he is feeling. Published in The Press, 6 November 2004 Arrangement: This cartoon file was originally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called "archive2004" Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.
Lionel Terry
Date: 1904
By: Churton, C E, active 1904
Reference: 1/2-021039-F
Description: Lionel Terry. Taken by C E Churton in 1904, at an unidentified location, during his walking tour from Auckland to Wellington, the year before he murdered Joe Kum Yung. Photograph from Lionel Terry, The shadow (Auckland [N.Z.] : Wilson and Horton, Printers, 1904). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Nurses with patients at the psychiatric unit of Porirua Hospital, Wellington
Date: 1956
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1956/0108-F
Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Other Notes - Original negative sleeve reads: Nursing at Porirua mental home Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
Psychiatric Nurses Oral History Project
Date: 1988-1989
By: New Zealand Nursing Education and Research Foundation
Reference: OHColl-0139
Description: Quantity: 8 C60 cassette(s). 6 printed abstract(s). 6 interview(s). Search dates: 1988 - 1989