VPRS 8828 Psychiatric Programs Policy (General Correspondence) Files

This series contains some of the records created by the central agencies responsible for the administration of the Mental Hygiene Act 1958 (No.6314), the Mental Health Act 1959 (No.6605), and the Mental Deficiency Act 1958 (No.6313) between 1983 and 1993.For general correspondence files for mental health for the years 1952 to 1983, see VPRS 6344 General Correspondence Files (Mental Health). When the Mental Retardation Division was formed in 1981, some files were removed from VPRS 6344, to become part of another series: VPRS 6352 General Correspondence Files (Mental Retardation/Intellectual Disability).The psychiatric services section of the Mental Health Division instituted a new filing system in 1983 to replace VPRS 6344 General Correspondence Files (Mental Health). Some files from the general correspondence series were top-numbered into the subsequent system which is this series (VPRS 8828) . The remainder are located in the second consignment of the series (VPRS 6344/P1).In 1993 the Department of Health and Community Services (VA 3092) instituted a central registry. The various offices of the Department no longer manage their own record-keeping systems. Current files were top-numbered into the centralised system which was a modified version of the records management system Recfind.