{"id":107,"date":"2010-01-08T23:06:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T23:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/?p=107"},"modified":"2010-11-11T22:44:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T22:44:15","slug":"medical-superintendents-dr-peter-mccowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Medical Superintendent &#8211; Dr Peter McCowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-134\" title=\"Dr McCowan\" src=\"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/drmccowan1.jpg\" alt=\"Dr McCowan\" width=\"200\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1929-1937<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peter McCowan held the post of Medical Superintendent after Dr. Goodall.\u00a0 Like his predecessor, he was keen to maintain the individuality of the patient and avoid the dangers of institutionalisation.\u00a0 His appointment coincided with the implementation of the Mental Treatment Act (1930), which replaced the Lunacy Act (1890).\u00a0 The new act allowed for the first time voluntary admission to mental hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Tim Goosey for this post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1929-1937 Dr. Peter McCowan held the post of Medical Superintendent after Dr. Goodall.\u00a0 Like his predecessor, he was keen to maintain the individuality of the patient and avoid the dangers of institutionalisation.\u00a0 His appointment coincided with the implementation of the Mental Treatment Act (1930), which replaced the Lunacy Act (1890).\u00a0 The new act allowed for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-superintendents","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitchurchhospital.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}