Talk:List of Australian mental asylums

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'Mental asylums' is a really really incorrect term. From 1950s on they were called Psychiatric Hospitals or Mental Health treatment centres. This is to do with destigmatising mental health for the benefit of the patient. The Laceweb site online (I woked with its founder) will give a run down of modern mental health practice.

Using termonology such as is used here is archaic and abusive to people who may be unwell. No one would do that to a person with appendicitis, would they. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.54.9.129 (talk • contribs)

For NSW add:

Kenmore Peat and Milson Rydalmere North Ryde Gladesville Parramatta

Darlinghurst was still operating in the 1920s and later.

The phrasing for Wolston Park in Queensland is pretty crook. There are children who are patients there so you are potentially presenting stuff in a light that may hurt them. There was also a hospital at Toowoomba.

For Victoria add:

Royal Park, Mont Park, Kew, Kew Cottages, Larundel, Ararat, Sunbury.

There were more.

Read Laceweb and you may have a kinder heart and approach termonology re health issues, more appropriately. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.54.9.129 (talk • contribs)