Out of Sight,

Out of Mind

“psychopaedic hospitals”,developed as part of the mental health system in the 1920s.

system of institutions held around 10,000 people, represented 37 percent of all hospital beds in the country.

Initiated by New Zealand’s highly active eugenics movement

designed to isolate ‘defective’ members of the community, prevent them breeding, and ultimately strengthen New Zealand’s racial stock.

separate ‘farm colonies’ for people with intellectual disabilities, and sterilisation

Those with severe intellectual disabilities, children with minor learning difficulties, people suffering mental illness, juvenile delinquents—were thrown in together.