177:, where he became familiar with the latest treatment methods in lunatic asylums. Embling married Jane Webb Chinnock on 1 August 1839 and by 1841 they were living with their son, William on Brompton Row, South Kensington, London. Both Embling and his wife suffered from 'pulmonary affections' which influenced their decision to emigrate to Australia. In 1850 Embling, his wife and seven children sailed from England to South Australia; they then travelled across to Melbourne. The journey to Melbourne was not without incident and Embling was caught up in the bush fires of
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inmates. He was refused a pass key and denied access to many of the asylum buildings, including the accommodation that he was to have been provided on the asylum grounds. Efforts to hinder
Embling however, only served to strengthen his resolve to become actively involved in the clinical management of his patients. What he saw at Yarra Bend shocked him, his first impressions
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Committee found that patients had been severely maltreated and that the Superintendent was "grossly negligent as well as highly culpable". Praise was heaped upon Embling by the Committee, declaring "it is with extreme regret we observe the efforts of this gentleman to promote the efficiency of a
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and restraining gloves and rejected the then popular psychiatric practice of punitive "treatment". These reforms were not popular with the
Superintendent, nor with the colonial surgeon. He was subsequently charged and brought before a disciplinary hearing, on the grounds that he was "too heroic to
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Embling's early days at Yarra Bend were not easy. Superintendent George Watson was not pleased with the appointment of a
Resident Medical Officer. With the assistance of displaced Visiting Medical Officer Dr Cussen, Watson attempted to thwart Embling's efforts to become involved in the care of
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November 1856, becoming a founding member of the Assembly. He served in the seat until July 1861 and again from February 1866 to December 1867. Following disagreements with his fellow politicians and poor health Embling withdrew from politics in 1869 and resumed his general medical practice.
614:"moral treatment" was supposed to be the foundation of treatment at Yarra Bend, as specified in the "Regulations for the Guidance of Officers, Attendants and Servants of the Lunatic Asylum at Port Phillip" (later known as Yarra Bend), published in the Government Gazette of 1849.(Brothers, p.19)
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launching a bitter attack on La Trobe, stating that
Embling had been "turned adrift". Embling wrote a comprehensive account of his experiences at Yarra Bend Asylum which The Argus published. Despite the outcry against Embling's dismissal, Dr Robert Bowie was appointed as the first Medical
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Aware that his accusers were highly regarded by the government, Embling briefed supportive parliamentarian James
Johnston on the activities and corruption he had witnessed at Yarra Bend. The story was picked up by the press, and in April 1852, only four months after Embling's appointment,
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September 1855, holding this seat until the Council ceased in March 1856. It was during this time that Embling was able to use his experience in the workings of lunatic asylums as he sat on an Asylum Board of Enquiry. Embling later was elected as a member of the newly created
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newspaper called for a reorganisation of the asylum. Public support for an enquiry grew, and following a motion put by
Johnston in July 1852, a Select Committee was appointed "To Enquire into the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum and to take Evidence".
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put forward the proposition that Yarra Bend
Lunatic Asylum required a Resident Medical Officer and Embling was highly suitable. Although not a psychiatrist, Embling had a pioneering interest in the 'moral treatment' of mental illness
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for use in desert exploration and he spoke at length in Parliament and in the Melbourne press on the subject. He supported the establishment of the Zoological Society and proposed that
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Report from the Select committee of the Legislative Council on the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum: together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix
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Illegal use of asylum resources, including using resources supposedly earmarked for patients being funnelled into a private poultry farm run by the Superintendent;
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After his graduation in 1829 he went into partnership in practice with his brother. It was during this time he held a position as a Visiting Medical Officer at
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in December 1854 and took over the chair at a public meeting which passed resolutions in favour of the gold miner's cause. In 1855, he supported the
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Embling's first appointment in Australia was to be as an assistant to the Colonial Surgeon of Victoria. However parliament members
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Despite the obstacles he encountered, Embling implemented significant reforms in a short space of time. He ordered the removal of
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dismissed the entire staff of Yarra Bend, including Embling. Superintendent Watson was given another post which led to
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and is credited with coining the slogan, 'Eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest'.
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Superintendent at Yarra Bend and Embling set up a private practice in Gore Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
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Thomas Embling died of "Senile Debility" on 17 January 1893 survived by his wife and four children.
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valuable institution, and to check the abuses that so seriously affected its usefulness…"
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be sent to India to purchase camels. The camels Landells returned with were used on the
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before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia where he set about reforming the
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Embling was a strong advocate of the introduction of exotic animals into
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739:"Burke & Wills Web; Camels & Sepoys for the Expedition"
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Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (May 2009).
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Embling publicly supported the popular movement at the
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and had a successful career in the early parliament of
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Zoological Society and the acclimatisation of animals
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The History of Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, Melbourne
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652:"Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum (1848 - 1925)"
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473:Australian Dictionary of Biography
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640:. Melbourne: Government Printer.
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