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
Mental asylums in New South Wales | |||||||
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Facility | Status | Managed | Opened | Closed | Capacity | Location | |
Castle Hill Lunatic Asylum[1] | Demolished | ? | 1811 | 1826 | ? | Castle Hill, New South Wales | |
Callan Park Hospital for the Insane (Rozelle Hospital) [2][3] | Closed | Warden: G Cleaver | 1885 | 2008[4] | 250 | Lilyfield | |
Cumberland Hospital | Operational | ? | ? | ? | ? | Parramatta | |
Darlinghurst Gaol | Closed | ? | 1841 | 1914 | ? | Darlinghurst | |
Gladesville Mental Hospital (Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum) | Closed | ? | 1838 | 1993 | ? | Gladesville, New South Wales | |
Morisset Hospital | Operational | ? | ? | ? | ? | Morisset | |
Macquarie Hospital[5] | Operational | ? | 1959[6] | ? | 195 | North Ryde | |
Peat Island Hospital | Closed | ? | 1911 | 2010 | ? | Peat Island | |
St Vincent's: CARITAS | Operational | ? | 1863 | 2010 | ? | Darlinghurst | |
Port Macquarie Mental Asylum | Closed | ? | ? | ? | ? | Port Macquarie | |
Total capacity | ? |
Northern Territory
There are no asylums known to have existed.
Queensland
- Belmont Private Hospital, Brisbane Qld's largest Private Psychiatric Hospital
- Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum, later renamed to Goodna Asylum and later to Goodna Mental Hospital and is now referred to as Wolston Park Hospital (later renamed "The Park") which still operates and has maximum and minimum facilities along with Psychogeriatric units.
- Palm Beach Currumbin Clinic,
- New Farm Clinic, Brisbane. An acute care private psychiatric hospital facility run by Ramsay Mental Health
- St Vincent’s Hospital, Robina.
- Baillie Henderson, Est 1890, Toowoomba.
South Australia
- Glenside Hospital
- Hillcrest Hospital
Tasmania
- Cascades Female Factory
- Royal Derwent Hospital (Willow Court) - This hospital was the oldest operating hospital for the mentally ill in Australia, operating from 1830–2000
- Cascades Asylum
- Port Arthur
Victoria
Mental asylums in Victoria | ||||||
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Facility | Status | Opened | Closed | Capacity | Location | |
Yarra Bend Asylum | Demolished | 1848 | 1925 | 1000+ | Fairfield, Melbourne | |
Ararat Asylum (Aradale Mental Hospital) | Closed | 1865 | 1993 | 2000 | Ararat | |
Collingwood Stockade (Carlton Lunatic Asylum) | Demolished | 1866 | 1872 | ? | Carlton North, Melbourne | |
Beechworth Asylum (Mayday Hills) | Closed | 1867 | 1995 | 1200[7] | Beechworth | |
Kew Asylum (Willsmere Mental Hospital) | Closed | 1871 [8] | 1988 | 884 (in 1903)[9] | Kew, Melbourne | |
Ballarat Asylum (Lakeside Mental Hospital) | Demolished | 1877 | 1997 | ? | Ballarat | |
Sunbury Asylum (Caloola) | Closed | 1879 | 1985 | ? | Sunbury | |
Kew Cottages | Closed | 1887 | 2007 | ? | Kew, Melbourne | |
Royal Park | Closed | 1909 | 1999 | ? | Parkville, Melbourne | |
Mont Park Asylum | Closed | 1912 | 1999 | ? | Bundoora, Melbourne | |
Larundel Psychiatric Hospital | New housing built on site | 1953 | 2001[10] | 747 [11] | Bundoora, Melbourne | |
Brierly Mental Hospital | Closed | 1957[12] | ? | ? | Warrnambool | |
Thomas Embling Hospital | Operational | 2000 | - | 116[13] | Fairfield, Melbourne | |
Pleasant View Receiving House in Preston (short lived). Heatherton Hospital in south east Melbourne.
Western Australia
Mental asylums in Western Australia | |||||||
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Facility | Status | Managed | Opened | Closed | Capacity | Location | |
Claremont Mental Hospital | Closed | ? | 1903 | 1972 | 1,114 | Mount Claremont, Western Australia | |
Fremantle Lunatic Asylum | Closed | ? | 1865 | 1909 | ? | Fremantle, Western Australia | |
Graylands Hospital | Operational | 1972 | - | 178 | Mount Claremont, Western Australia | ||
Heathcote Mental Hospital | Closed | ? | 1929 | 1994 | 113 | Applecross, Western Australia | |
Perth House | Closed | ? | 1909 | 1911 | ? | Perth, Western Australia | |
Roma Hospital | Closed | ? | 1924 | 1925 | ? | Cottesloe, Western Australia | |
Whitby Falls Mental Hospital[14] | Closed | ? | 1897 | 1972 | 34 | Mundijong, Western Australia | |
See also
References
- ↑ The Castle Hill lunatic asylum (1811-1826) and the origins of eclectic pragmatism in Australian psychiatry.;
- ↑ Friends of Callan Park; The Future of Callan Park: A suggested Vision and Way Forward; 14 August 2003;
- ↑ NSW Health, The Rozelle Hospital, Facility Information, Accessed 04/11/06
- ↑ NSW Nurses' Association, Farewell Rozelle Hospital Accessed 31/8/08
- ↑ Northern Sydney Central Coast Health, "Macquarie Hospital" Accessed 10/11/10
- ↑ State Records Archives Investigator, "Agency Detail" Accessed 10/11/10
- ↑ La Trobe University Beechworth Site details Accessed 5/9/08
- ↑ PROV, Agency VA 2840 , Accessed 27/8/08
- ↑ "Kew, Victoria (archived)". Australian Places. Monash University. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ↑ Sandy Jeffs The Politics of Asylum Paper for the VICSERV Conference 2006
- ↑ Darebin Libraries, Larundel Mental Asylum, History, Accessed 27 August 2008
- ↑ SouthWest Health Care Annual Report 2004 Accessed 2008-09-29
- ↑ Forensicare. Thomas Embling Hospital retrieved 5/5/12
- ↑ "Whitby Falls Hospital". State Records Office of Western Australia. Retrieved 23 January 2013.