Affidavit of J. McGeorge - Dated 18.4.1955 I, JOHN McGEORGE of 183 Macquarie Street Sydney in the State of New South Wales Medical Practitioner make oath and say as follows:1. I hold the Degrees of Bachelor of Medicine, Master of Surgery, Diploma in Psychiatry all of Sydney University. 2. As a Medical Practitioner I have throughout the past twentyseven years specialised in the practice of psychiatry. 3. I am a member of the Parole Board of N.S.W. and Consultant Psychiatrist to the Royal Alfred Hospital. I am Consultant Psychiatrist to the Department of the Attorney General and of Justice in the State of New South Wales, to the Royal Australian Airforce and to the Royal Australian Navy. 4. I am also a qualified Barrister-at-law and am a member of the New South Wales Bar. 5. I am Lecturer at the Sydney University on the subject of Forensic Psychiatry and at the Sydney University Law School on the subjects of Criminal Law and Lunacy. 6. My present appointment to the Department of the Attorney General and of Justice entails the examination of all sex offenders after conviction and sentence and of many before trial who may not be sent to prison after conviction. In my practice as a psychiatrist I saw many sex offenders. For five years I was the Senior Medical Officer at the Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic where psychopaths, sexual and otherwise, were admitted, This institution is the largest of its kind in Australia. For some years, prior to my retirement from practice, I was the senior psychiatrist at the Royal Alfred Hospital and in charge of the Psychiatry Pavilion at that hospital. There were 5 psychiatrists junior to me as well as a junior and a senior resident medical officer. This clinic also had numerous sex offenders referred to it. My present duties consist largely in expressing opinions on cases referred to me by magistrates and judges. The majority of such cases are sex offenders. I am the author of a monograph, published in July 15, 1939, on juvenile delinquency. I was the first chairman of the Child Welfare Advisory Council established by the N.S.W. Government to deal with problems related to child welfare, including delinquency. I am a member of the Visiting Committee to the Criminal Mental Defectives Institution. All the prisoners in this institution are sex offenders. I believe that I have a wider experience in forensic psychiatry than any other psychiatrist in Australia, having been visiting psychiatrist to the State Penitentiary, Long Bay, for eight years, consultant psychiatrist for a further ten years and holder of my present appointment for over three years making a total experience in this aspect of psychiatry of some twenty odd years. I am at present preparing a paper on the sex offender for publication in the Journal of Forensic Medicine of South Africa, at the request of the editor. My most recent paper published on October 30, 1954 was on "Medico-legal Aspects of Psychiatry" and a section of this is devoted to the sex-offender. 136
The 1955 Romance Comics Trial
