Treatment of Psychiatric Patients under the Poor Relief Act and <i>Hōmen-Iin</i> (Welfare Commissioners) Who Worked in Kyoto City in the 1930s

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  • 救護法下における精神病者処遇と方面委員 ——1930年代の京都市を事例として——

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<p>For clarifying the development of Japan’s mental health system, while the system functioned as poverty relief for psychiatric patients, the research has not been emphasized. This article focuses on welfare commissioners (hōmen-iin), the supporters of local residents in difficulties with life in 1930s Kyoto, and examines how those commissioners provided poor psychiatric patients with treatment under Poor Relief Act. The result was that after the commissioners found patients in the poor families, who were ‘not needed for confinement,’ the commissioners strived for institutionalization of the patients in order to save them from poverty by the Act. The commissioners’ claim influenced city’s social service policies and eventually helped to set up the institutes for poor psychiatric patients. In conclusion, they were the most contributors of the institutionalization.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390576424448358144
  • DOI
    10.18918/jshms.32.2_122
  • ISSN
    21898642
    13430203
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
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