Hi Tracy, The Kingseat Hospital Records were deposited with Archives NZ Auckland Office. Contact them for the procedures required for you to obtain the details you are after. I would also recommend you contact the NZSG Papakura Br & have their Biographical Index checked ( the Kingseat area local histories etc have been indexed) Happy Hunting Kathy B Little River ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy Pilet" <tpilet@waikato.ac.nz> To: <NEW-ZEALAND@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 9:06 AM Subject: [nz] Kingseat Hospital: Ease of Research? > Good morning listers, > > > > I have recently discovered that my great > grand-aunt<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onmymothersside/huntley/huntleypaulhillfrances.shtml>was > committed to Kingseat Hospital in 1945, and I am keen to find out why > and for how long. > > She was committed at age 45 and I know that she passed away in a rest home > in Auckland 43 years later in 1988, aged 88. > > > > Has anyone had any experience (good, bad or otherwise) obtaining records > of > past inmates? I'm assuming that records will not be easily available, but > am wondering whether they will be downright impossible. > > > > Many thanks. > > > > p.s. the charmingly named Mental Defectives Act 1911, under which she was > committed, makes for interesting reading. It lists six 'classes' of > mentally defective persons: > > > > 1. Persons of unsound mind > > 2. Persons mentally infirm > > 3. Idiots > > 4. Imbeciles > > 5. Feeble-minded > > 6. Epileptics > > > > Regards > > > > Tracy Pilet > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message