Obituary
The work for mental health has suffered a great loss in the death, on March 1st, of Dr William Sullivan, Medical Superintendent of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. He had held the post of Medical Superintendent since 1920, after some years at Rampton in the same capacity.
Dr Sullivan held a hig-h position in his profession and was widely known through his writings and lectures; he was a lecturer at the Maudsley Hospital to the students for the London Diploma of Psychological Medicine. He became known to a wider public by his views on alcoholism as a social pathological manifestation, and by his membership of the Advisory Committee appointed in 1916 by the Central Control Board (Liquor Traffic).
Dr Sullivan’s work on ” Crime and Insanity,” which he published in 1924, is an important contribution to a difficult branch of Mental Hygiene; he had not only unique opportunities of securing data for his conclusions, but his sane and balanced judgment and the clarity and soundness of his views make this a notable contribution of great value to the medical and legal profession.
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