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List Of Australian Psychiatric Institutions
This is a list of operational and former Australian psychiatric hospitals. Australian Capital Territory There are no institutions known to have existed. New South Wales Northern Territory There are no asylums known to have existed. Queensland South Australia * Glenside Hospital * James Nash House Tasmania * Cascades Female Factory * Royal Derwent HospitalWillow Court – This hospital was the oldest operating hospital for the mentally ill in Australia, operating from 1830–2000 *Royal Hobart Hospital Unit K *Northside Clinic *Millbrook Rise *Spencer Clinic Victoria Pleasant View Receiving House in Preston (short lived). Heatherton Hospital in south east Melbourne. Western Australia See also * List of Australian prisons * List of hospitals in Australia References {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Australian Mental Asylums Psychiatric Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental conditions. These inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Hill Lunatic Asylum
Castle Hill Lunatic Asylum was Australia's first official institution which provided care for the mentally ill. It was located approximately north of Parramatta Parramatta (; ) is a suburb (Australia), suburb and major commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney. Parramatta is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district, Sydney CBD, on the banks of the Parramatta River. It is co ... in New South Wales. Established by Lachlan Macquarie in May 1811, it operated until 1826. It was housed in a two-storey stone building, previously a granary, which also served as a barracks at one time. George Suttor, farmer and pioneer settler, was superintendent of the lunatic asylum from August 1814 to February 1819, when he was dismissed on charges of using lunatic labour on his farm. Former naval surgeon William Bland – a convicted murderer – was a physician at the asylum from 1814 until he received a pardon in 1815. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peat Island
Peat Island is an island in the village of Mooney Mooney, New South Wales, Mooney Mooney located in the Hawkesbury River on the Central Coast (New South Wales), Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. The Island has approximately eight hectares of land and is located just upstream from the Pacific Motorway (Sydney–Newcastle), Pacific Motorway and Pacific Highway (Australia), Pacific Highway bridge. It is considered an island due to its size. There is one road connecting the landmass to the mainland. History Peat Island was originally known as Rabbit Island, likely because rabbits were kept there as reported in 1841: "''That to the east is termed Goat Island, having many of those animals grazing thereon, the other Rabbit Island, which is numerously stocked as a Rabbit Warren.''" It was renamed to Peat Island in 1936 due to its proximity to Peat's Ferry, which at the time was operating between Mooney Mooney and Kangaroo Point on the Hawkesbury River. George Peat was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ipswich Mental Hospital
Ipswich Mental Hospital is a heritage-listed psychiatric hospital at 3 Parker Avenue, Ipswich, City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Queensland Works Department and built from 1933 to 1940. It is also known as Ipswich Hospital for the Insane, Sandy Gallop Asylum, and Challinor Centre. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 2 December 1996. History Sandy Gallop asylum, as it was first known, was established in 1878 as a branch asylum of the Goodna asylum. It occupied a 140-acre site on the southern outskirts of Ipswich. The main building consisted of a single storey timber and masonry structure which contained three dormitories and two day rooms. The asylum received mainly chronic cases from Goodna. By the 1880s, it was accommodating more than 100 patients. The constant growth in admissions of patients to asylums in Queensland prompted the creation of Sandy Gallop as a separate institution. From 1910 it was known as the Ipswich Hospital for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toowoomba
Toowoomba ( ), nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar', is a city on the border of South East Queensland and Darling Downs regions of Queensland, Australia. It is located west of Queensland's capital, Brisbane. The urban population of Toowoomba as of the was 142,163, having grown at an average annual rate of 1.45% over the previous two decades. Toowoomba is the List of cities in Australia by population, second-most-populous inland city in Australia after the nation's capital, Canberra. It is also the second-largest regional centre in Queensland and is often referred to as the capital of the Darling Downs, or the 4th biggest city in South East Queensland after Brisbane, Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast, & the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sunshine Coast. The city serves as the council seat of the Toowoomba Region. Toowoomba, one of Australia's oldest inland cities, was founded in 1849 on the lands of the Giabal and Jarowair people. The city's central streets were named after t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baillie Henderson Hospital
Baillie Henderson Hospital is a heritage-listed rehabilitation and mental health facility in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Baillie Henderson Hospital is a public facility, owned and operated by Darling Downs Health, part of Queensland Health. It was built from 1888 to 1919, and was historically called the Toowoomba Hospital for the Insane, Toowoomba Lunatic Asylum, and Toowoomba Mental Hospital. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 27 September 1999. History Baillie Henderson Hospital is situated on the northwestern outskirts of Toowoomba. It was established as a lunatic asylum in 1890 and continues to provide psychiatric care with more than 400 patients and is the most intact nineteenth-century asylum in Queensland. The treatment of lunacy or madness underwent a reformation in the first half of the nineteenth century in America, France and Britain from physical restraint and bizarre procedures to management through the provision of a pleasant environ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Park Centre For Mental Health
The Park Centre for Mental Health is a heritage-listed psychiatric hospital at 60 Grindle Road, Wacol, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in Australia. The hospital provides a range of mental health services, including extended inpatient care, mental health research, education and a high security psychiatric unit. It was designed by Kersey Cannan and built from 1866 to 1923. It is also known as ''Goodna Hospital for the Insane'', ''Goodna Mental Hospital'', ''Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum'', and ''Wolston Park Hospital Complex''. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. The Wolston Park Hospital Complex, opened in 1865, occupies a site on the banks of the Brisbane River at Wacol and encompasses a number of mental health facilities and ancillary services operated by the Queensland government since inception of the asylum. The hospital employs around 450 people, including 220 nurses and 20 doctors. Ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockton, New South Wales
Stockton is a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, located from Newcastle's central business district. It is the only residential suburb of the City of Newcastle that lies north of the Hunter River, New South Wales, Hunter River. Geography Stockton is a peninsula, with the Hunter River, New South Wales, Hunter River at the south and south-west and the Pacific Ocean at the east. On the eastern side are sand dunes and surfing beaches, with numerous shipwrecks at its north, while on the western side there are marshes, where many migratory birds can be spotted. There are numerous spots at Stockton suitable for recreational fishing. For many years, Stockton was linked to Newcastle's central business district at the south by passenger and vehicular ferry services. While there is still a passenger ferry service, vehicular traffic is now connected by the Stockton Bridge that opened in 1971. History Aboriginal history The Aboriginal people, in this area, the Worimi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange Health Service
The Orange Health Service is a public hospital located on the Bloomfield Health Campus, approximately south of the city , New South Wales in Australia and is operated by Western NSW Local Health District. Orange Health Service was opened in 2011, co-located with the redeveloped Bloomfield psychiatric hospital and replacing Orange Base Hospital as a referral hospital for the Central West region. The facility provides a range of general, surgical and specialist services, in particular forensic psychiatry and cancer treatment. It is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Sydney but is also used for teaching students from other universities including the Charles Sturt University and University of Wollongong. Services and facilities In addition to a 24-hour Emergency Department, Orange Health Service provides a 12-bed critical care unit for adult patients, with dedicated high dependency and coronary care beds, and is able to treat patients with a range of serious a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange, New South Wales
Orange is a city in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the state capital, Sydney [ on a great circle], at an altitude of . Orange had an urban population of 41,920 at the 2021 Australia Census, 2021 Census, making the city a significant regional centre. A significant nearby landmark is Mount Canobolas with a peak elevation of and commanding views of the district. Orange is situated within the traditional lands of the Wiradjuri tribe. Orange was the birthplace of poets Banjo Paterson and Kenneth Slessor, although Paterson lived in Orange for only a short time as an infant. Walter W. Stone, book publisher (Wentworth Books) and passionate supporter of Australian literature, was also born in Orange. The first Australian Touring Car Championship, known today as the Supercars Championship, was held at the Gnoo Blas Motor Racing Circuit in 1960 Australian Touring Car Championship, 1960. History The Orange region is the traditional land of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloomfield Hospital, Orange
Bloomfield Hospital is a heritage-listed former psychiatric hospital at Forest Road, Orange, City of Orange, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Walter Liberty Vernon and George McRae and built from 1923 to 1931. It is also known as Orange Mental Hospital. The property is owned by NSW Health (Crown Land). It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 10 March 2006. History At the turn of the nineteenth century, institutions for the mentally ill were fast becoming overcrowded. In response to this pressure and the demand for treatment of rural based mentally ill patients, Frederick Norton Manning, Inspector General for the Insane, proposed that a number of hospitals for the mentally ill be established in rural areas. Under his guidance, Kenmore Psychiatric Hospital was built in Goulburn in 1897. In 1898 Eric Sinclair took over from Manning and continued the work of developing rural based psychiatric hospitals with the Morisset Hospital complete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rydalmere
Rydalmere (formerly Field of Mars) is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Rydalmere is approximately 21 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Parramatta. Rydalmere is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. History The earliest grant in the area was to Phillip Schaeffer who settled in 1791. The district comprising modern day Rydalmere, Ermington and Dundas was initially called "The Ponds" because of such natural features occurring above Subiaco Creek. Shortly after Schaeffer's, further grants were given to several emancipists, eight marines and two crew of HMS ''Sirius'', on the northern bank of the Parramatta River at Rydalmere and Ermington. By about 1800 "The Ponds" became known as "Field of Mars", presumably because of Mars being the god of war, and the military men that received land grants there. The parish of Field of Mars spread more or less from Parramatta to West Ryde and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
