https://www.asylumprojects.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Squad546&feedformat=atomAsylum Projects - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T14:25:41ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=NeuroDiagnostic_Institute&diff=42903NeuroDiagnostic Institute2022-07-18T00:55:01Z<p>Squad546: Reverted edits by AnddRReeW317 (talk) to last revision by Squad546</p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = NeuroDiagnostic Institute<br />
| image = <br />
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| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 2019<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Indianapolis, IN<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names = <br />
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== History ==<br />
The NeuroDiagnostic Institute and Advanced Treatment Center opened on March 15, 2019, as the newest addition to the Indiana state psychiatric hospital network. Co-located on the campus of Community Hospital East, the NDI is a cutting-edge institute that delivers expert neuro-diagnostic evaluations and treatment for patients upon their arrival and move them more efficiently and effectively into the most appropriate treatment settings within the state’s mental health system.<br />
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[[Category:Indiana]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]<br />
[[Category:Active Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Bristol_Lunatic_Asylum&diff=42889Bristol Lunatic Asylum2022-07-05T01:38:24Z<p>Squad546: Reverted edits by 185.3.52.225 (talk) to last revision by Squad546</p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Bristol Lunatic Asylum<br />
| image = bristolasylumaerial.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1861<br />
| closed = 1994<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]] <br />
| building_style = [[Pavilion Plan Institutions|Pavilion Plan]] <br />
| architect(s) = Henry Crisp<br />
| location = Fishponds, Bristol<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Beaufort War Hospital<br />
*Glenside Hospital<br />
*Blackberry Hill Hospital<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
From 1809 Bristol Corporation had a duty to look after pauper lunatics. In 1845 the Lunatics Act made it mandatory. The Corporation were told they had to build a purpose built asylum. They were using St Peters Hospital in the center of town but it was not fit for purpose and very overcrowded. Bristol’s Lunatic Asylum opened in 1861. A great stone building with a large central house containing the administration, extending from which were many long, well-lit and airy wards. There was accommodation for staff, out buildings and all the land needed for a self-sufficient community. A farm with pigs, chickens and fields for vegetables. An orchard, large green houses and a team of gardeners. Apart the medical superintendant, nurses or male attendants, there were staff running the kitchen, laundry, and sewing room. There were butchers, bakers, painters and decorators, engineers, carpenters, and stonemasons. Like many large Victorian houses, it was brimming with activity.<br />
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From 1915- 1918 the hospital became Beaufort War Hospital, one of many hospitals receiving wounded soldiers from the front. It was here the artist Stanley Spencer was a medical orderly. Many of his paintings at Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere, near Newbury, are based on his memories of life at Beaufort War Hospital.<br />
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In 1919 following the cessation of hostilities, the hospital returned to its former mental health brief, later becoming known as Glenside Hospital under the NHS reforms of the 1950s. In January 1993, Glenside and neighbouring Manor Park Hospital merged to become the jointly named Blackberry Hill Hospital. Patients of Glenside were assessed for capability, with many placed within the Care in the Community programme, while the residual were moved into new buildings constructed on the former Manor Park site for their long term care. From 1992 the hospital began closing wards, and the site was converted into the Avon and Gloucestershire College of Health in a phased program over three years. The final patients left Glenside in 1994.<br />
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==Museum==<br />
Glenside Hospital Museum is located in Bristol within the grounds of the old hospital, a Grade II listed building. The Museum is open free to the public every Wednesday and Saturday morning from 10.00am–12.30pm, or at other times by arrangement. [http://www.glensidemuseum.org.uk/ Museum website]<br />
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[[Category:Pavilion Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Institution With A Museum]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Wisconsin&diff=42805Wisconsin2022-05-25T01:45:05Z<p>Squad546: /* State Hospitals */</p>
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<div>{{infobox state<br />
| Name = Wisconsin<br />
| flag = 675px-Flag_of_Wisconsin.svg.png<br />
| flagAlt = Flag of Wisconsin<br />
| seal = 600px-Seal_of_Wisconsin.svg.png<br />
| sealAlt = Seal of Wisconsin<br />
| Motto = Forward<br />
| Map = 286px-Map_of_USA_WI.svg.png<br />
| MapAlt =<br />
| Nickname = Badger State; America's Dairyland<br />
| Capital = Madison<br />
| LargestCity = Milwaukee<br />
| Total_Area_mile = 65,498<br />
| Total_Area_km = 169,639<br />
| Width_mile = 260<br />
| Width_km = 420<br />
| Length_mile = 310<br />
| Length_km = 500<br />
| total_state_population = 5,771,337 (2015 est)<br />
| total_mh_inpatient_pop = <br />
| year_past_peak_pop = <br />
| past_mh_inpatient_pop =<br />
| total_number_mental_health_institutions = 4<br />
| current_number_public_institutions = 2<br />
| current_number_private_institutions = 2<br />
| year_peak_mh_institutions = 1962<br />
| peak_mh_institutions = 35<br />
| year_peak_state_hospitals = 19<br />
| peak_state_hospitals = 3<br />
| year_peak_state_schools = <br />
| peak_state_schools = <br />
| year_peak_private_mental_hospitals = 2010<br />
| peak_private_mental_hospitals = 2<br />
}}<br />
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== State Hospitals ==<br />
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* [[Mendota Mental Health Institute]]<br />
* [[Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center]]<br />
* [[Winnebago State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Wisconsin Central State Hospital]]<br />
* [[Wisconsin Memorial Hospital]]<br />
* [[Wisconsin Resource Center]]<br />
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== State Schools ==<br />
* [[Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled]]<br />
* [[Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled]]<br />
* [[Southern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled]]<br />
* [[Wisconsin School for the Blind]]<br />
* [[Wisconsin School for the Deaf]]<br />
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==Reform Schools==<br />
* [[Hayward Indian School]]<br />
* [[Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys]]<br />
* [[Wisconsin Industrial School for Girls]]<br />
* [[Oneida Indian School]]<br />
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==Government Institutions==<br />
* [[National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers]]<br />
* [[Veterans Hospital No. 37]]<br />
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== County Asylums ==<br />
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* [[Brown County Asylum & Poorhouse]]<br />
* [[Chippewa County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Clark County Insane Asylum]]<br />
* [[Columbia County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Dane County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Dodge County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Douglas County Asylum for the Chronic Insane]]<br />
* [[Dunn County Insane Asylum]]<br />
* [[Eau Claire County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Fond du Lac County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Grant County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Green County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Iowa County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Jefferson County Asylum]]<br />
* [[La Crosse County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Manitowoc County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Marathon County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Marinette County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Milwaukee County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Milwaukee Hospital for the Insane]] <br />
* [[Monroe County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Outagamie County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Racine County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Richland County Chronic Asylum]]<br />
* [[Rock County Insane Asylum]]<br />
* [[Sauk County Poor Farm and Insane Asylum]]<br />
* [[Shawano County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Sheboygan County Asylum]]<br />
* [[St. Croix County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Trempealeau County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Vernon County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Walworth County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Washington County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Waukesha County Poor House and Asylum for the Insane]]<br />
* [[Waupaca County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Winnebago County Asylum]]<br />
* [[Wood County Asylum]]<br />
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== Private Institutions==<br />
* [[Lutheran Home for Feeble Minded and Epileptics]]<br />
* [[Milwaukee Sanitarium]]<br />
* [[St. Coletta Feeble-Minded School]]<br />
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== Sanitariums ==<br />
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* [[Alexian Brothers Hospital]]<br />
* [[Beloit Sanatarium]]<br />
* [[Blue Mound Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Children's Preventorium]]<br />
* [[Forest Lawn Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Hickory Grove Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Jefferson County Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Lake view Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Lake Tomahawk Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Madison Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Maple Crest Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Mount Washington Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Muirdale Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Northern Wisconsin State Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Oak Forest Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Oconomowoc Sanitarium]]<br />
* [[Palmyra Springs Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Pinehurst Sanitarium]]<br />
* [[Pureair Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[River Pines Sanatorium for Tuberculosis]]<br />
* [[Riverview Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Rocky Knoll Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Social Workers' Tuberculosis Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Sunny Rest Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Sunny View Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[The Oak Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[T.B. Ward of the Milwaukee Children's Free Hospital]]<br />
* [[Waldheim Park Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Waukesha Springs Sanitarium]]<br />
* [[Willowbrook Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanatorium]]<br />
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[[Category:United States of America]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Northern_Wisconsin_Center_for_the_Developmentally_Disabled&diff=42804Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled2022-05-25T01:41:33Z<p>Squad546: </p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled<br />
| image = wiscfeebleminded.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1895<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1897<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = Chippewa Falls, WI<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population = 2,203 (1962)<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
* Northern Wisconsin Home for the Feeble-minded and Epileptics<br />
* Northern Wisconsin Colony and Training School<br />
* Northern Wisconsin Center (current)<br />
}}<br />
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== History ==<br />
The first attempt to establish a residential facility for the developmentally disabled in the State of Wisconsin dates back to 1867, when the state legislature passed a bill to provide an institution for "imbecile and idiotic" children. Because the presiding officers failed to sign it before adjournment, the bill did not become law. Various organizations continued to call attention to the need for such an institution which resulted in a bill in 1887 that passed both houses, but was vetoed by the governor. When re-introduced in 1891, the bill failed to pass both houses of the legislature. Finally, in 1895, twenty eight years after it was first introduced, the bill for a "Wisconsin Home for the Feeble Minded" became a law.<br />
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The name of the institution changed several times, including in 1922, when it was renamed the Northern Wisconsin Colony and Training School. As of 1976, it is known as the Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled and is still used for the care of patients with developmental disabilities.<br />
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==Images==<br />
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File:wisconNFMI2.png<br />
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File:WIFMInorthSM1924.jpg<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
* [[Southern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled]]<br />
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== Links ==<br />
* http://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/dd_nwc/aboutnwc/history.htm<br />
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[[Category: Wisconsin]]<br />
[[Category: Active Institution]]<br />
[[Category: Cottage Plan]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Central_Wisconsin_Center_for_the_Developmentally_Disabled&diff=42803Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled2022-05-25T01:40:53Z<p>Squad546: </p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled<br />
| image = WICDCaerial.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1953<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1959<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = Madison, WI<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =</br><br />
*Central Wisconsin Center (current)<br />
}}<br />
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== History ==<br />
Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled (CWC) at Madison, one of three residential facilities operated by the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services to serve the developmentally disabled, was authorized by the State Legislature in 1953. Its first individual was accepted in 1959 when two of the present ten buildings became operational. Central Center's staff of approximately 850 persons serve approximately 270 individuals of all ages who require extensive care, treatment, and training.<br />
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Central Wisconsin Center supports individuals with intellectual disabilities. Services are provided to assist individuals in acquiring the personal skills needed to reach their highest potential. Central Wisconsin Center offers residential and short term care services to individuals who are eligible for service as defined in the ICF-MR regulations.<br />
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[[Category: Wisconsin]]<br />
[[Category: Active Institution]]<br />
[[Category: Cottage Plan]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Sunmount_Developmental_Center&diff=42770Sunmount Developmental Center2022-04-21T01:21:13Z<p>Squad546: Reverted edits by 108.162.219.55 (talk) to last revision by Squad546</p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Sunmount Developmental Center<br />
| image = NYtupperlake.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1922<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1924<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Tupper Lake, NY<br />
| architecture_style = Classical Revival<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Sunmount VA Hospital<br />
*Sunmount State School<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
Sunmount Veterans Administration Hospital for treatment of veterans with tuberculosis opened in Tupper Lake in 1924, following the huge upsurge of TB cases among veterans of World War I. Previously, many of them had been housed by contract with the Veterans Administration in private cure cottages in Saranac Lake. Sunmount closed as a TB hospital in 1965, but reopened as a facility for people with developmental disabilities, now called Sunmount Developmental Center. It is an immediate care facility for the mentally retarded. It is a private – nonprofit facility that has been a Medicaid participant since 1975.<br />
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==Images==<br />
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File:sunmountmap.png<br />
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[[Category:New York]]<br />
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Active Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Kentucky_Correctional_Psychiatric_Center&diff=42726Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center2022-03-16T01:17:25Z<p>Squad546: </p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center<br />
| image = <br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| established = 1979<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| opened = 1981<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]]<br />
| building_style = [[Modern Plan Institutions|Modern Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = LaGrange, KY <br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Luther Luckett Correctional Complex<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
The Luther Luckett Correctional Complex is unique in that it actually houses two separate institutions. The Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center operated by the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet. The two facilities share a number of resources and operate under a written shared services agreement. The first inmates were received at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in March 1981. Although the institution was designed to house 486, with double bunking in 1990, the operational capacity was raised to 995. In February 2002 the addition of 104 daybeds to Units 7A, 7B and 7C increased the operational capacity to 1,099. <br />
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The facility also provides inpatient treatment for individuals who have been adjudicated incompetent to stand trial and are held on a civil commitment order. KCPC serves all 120 counties and is located in a secure facility on the grounds of the Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in Lagrange, Kentucky.<br />
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[[Category:Kentucky]]<br />
[[Category:Modern Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Active Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Kentucky_Correctional_Psychiatric_Center&diff=42725Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center2022-03-16T01:14:24Z<p>Squad546: Reverted edits by 205.204.186.15 (talk) to last revision by Squad546</p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center<br />
| image = <br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| established = 1979<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| opened = 1981<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]]<br />
| building_style = [[Modern Plan Institutions|Modern Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = LaGrange, KY <br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Luther Luckett Correctional Complex<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
The facility is unique in that it actually houses two separate institutions. The Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center operated by the Kentucky Human Resources Cabinet. The two facilities share a number of resources and operate under a written shared services agreement. The first inmates were received at Luther Luckett Correctional Complex in March 1981. Although the institution was designed to house 486, with double bunking in 1990, the operational capacity was raised to 995. In February 2002 the addition of 104 daybeds to Units 7A, 7B and 7C increased the operational capacity to 1,099.<br />
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[[Category:Kentucky]]<br />
[[Category:Modern Plan]]<br />
[[Category:Active Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Hardy_Sanitorium&diff=42613Hardy Sanitorium2022-01-18T01:24:42Z<p>Squad546: </p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Hardy Sanitorium<br />
| image = hardysan.png<br />
| image_size = <br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1900<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = <br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = 212 1st St, Ardmore, OK<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
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}}<br />
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==History==<br />
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Founded and opened somewhere around 1900, the Hardy Sanitorium was named after is founder - Dr. Walter Hardy. The land was originally bought by Walter Hardy's parents in 1895. The original building sat at the corner of Caddo and Main streets. It seems the Sanitorium was rebuilt at the same location after burning down sometime in the early 1900s or 1910s. <br />
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Sometime before 1921 a new location was chosen for a newer, larger Hardy Sanitorium located at the corner of 1st SW and B Street.<br />
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In 1921, the sanitorium is reported to have had 60 1-bed rooms, with Dr Walter Hardy as the chief surgeon and Mrs Walter Hardy as the superintendent. <br />
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In 1924, the sanitorium is reported to have had the same 60 beds, 3 graduated nurses, 10 nurses currently in training, and 9 additional nurses without training. <br />
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The Hardy Sanitorium was closed down in 1955 when the Carter County Memorial Hospital was opened. The building was torn down and replaced by the new Ardmore Post Office.<br />
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==Noteworthy additional information==<br />
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In November 1930, Dr Hardys brother, Andrew Hardy was arrested on the accusation of murdering his wife with a shotgun shot to her face. Andrew Hardy had reported the killing as an accident, saying the gun fell and discharged as his wife drove their car on a hunting expedition. Andrew was however charged with murder when a nearby farmer, Mitch Ligon (a black man), reported to the police having seen Andrew chase down his wife in a field and shoot her. 30 days later while Andrew was awaiting trial, the deputy charged with investigating his case, Deputy Con Keirsey, was involved in a shoot out trying to apprehend 2 car thieves. Deputy Keirsey was taken to Hardy Sanitorium and died in the care of Dr Walter Hardy 10 hours later. In Feb of the following year, witness Mitch Ligon was shot and injured in a reported "spat with a friend over money", and another black man who was to testify in the trail would be found dead of drowning before the trail could begin. <br />
Andrew Hardy's trial finally began in the Spring of 1931 and attendence was the largest Cart County has seen for a trail. Ligon testified and Andrew declared he was a "lying negro". Andrew also denied allegations from his mother-in-law that was in love and having an affair with the Carter County Attorney's secretary. Another witness, Ms Viola Ross, was accused of being an untrustworthy witness by the defense because one of her children was reportedly fathered by a black man. Ms Ross' children were brought into court and paraded in front of the jurors, to show that one child had darker skin and black, wavy hair. State prosecutors would show that Andrew had taken out several life insurance policies on his wife just months before her death, that other nearby farm workers had heard a woman screaming before the shot, and that no blood-splatter or shotgun pellet marks were found inside the automobile. Prosecutors also presented several post office employees who claimed to have seen nude photographs of Andrew Hardy and the secretary, Edna Stewart, together. <br />
After four days of testimony, and in less than two hours of deliberations, the jury would come back with a Not Guilty verdict on Andrew Hardy.<br />
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==Images==<br />
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File:walterhardy.jpg<br />
File:hardysan2.jpg<br />
File:hardysan3.jpg<br />
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[[Category:Oklahoma]]<br />
[[Category:Closed Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Okmulgee_County_Poor_Farm&diff=42198Okmulgee County Poor Farm2021-11-09T14:43:59Z<p>Squad546: </p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Okmulgee County Poor Farm<br />
| image = <br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established =<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = <br />
| closed =<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = <br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = Okmulgee, OK<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Okmulgee County Almshouse<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
Information on the internet about County Farms in Oklahoma is difficult to find. However, a reference was stumbled upon which stated the farm was located within the SW/4 of Section 16 in Township 13 North, Range 13 East. This describes a ½ mile square, or 160 acres, located on the northeast corner of 36th street and Mission in Okmulgee. It was not stated how many acres were owned by the county within this 160-acre description. Depending upon the size and type of operation, 20 to 160 acres, would certainly not be unreasonable. Less than 20 acres would seem to be insufficient and more than 160 acres seems large by today’s standards. However, the yield per acre was less then, as compared to now, so 160 acres cannot be discounted.<br />
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These Poor Farm buildings can be seen in decades old aerial photographs held by the public library. Now gone, the residents and farm buildings were located about 1/3 mile east of Mission on the north side of 36th street. The main buildings set back about 300 feet from the road. After the buildings were demolished, a residence was constructed about 150 feet southwest of their location and is still in use. <ref> Source: [https://ocgsnews.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/county-farm-4.pdf]</ref><br />
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==Cemetery==<br />
The Okmulgee Cemetery has an area designated for the poor, also known as potter’s field. Other nearby towns have cemeteries with potter’s fields as well. The discovery of a large county-owned potter’s field is not expected based upon what is known, but cannot be ruled out entirely. The Okmulgee Cemetery is only 1.5 miles from the County Farm and could easily have been used for their burials. The Okmulgee Cemetery has been in continuous operation for 111 years.<br />
In 1971 the Genealogical Society of Okmulgee produced their book entitled “Cemetery Records of Okmulgee County Oklahoma”. In it they documented what they referred to as Okmulgee County Cemetery – Potter’s Field. Following is an excerpt: "A small cemetery grown up to weeds and brush. It is south of Okmulgee Country Club in the SW1/4 section of the SW1/4 of Section 16 R13E T13N. Only 4 marked graves were found but field stones and rusted funeral home markers identified 25 other locations of burial. Names on the 4 marked graves as follows: Baker, Arthur Nov. 1 1876 - July 29 1935 , Baker, Frank L Jan. 13 1880 - Aug. 15 1938 , Meek, John died 3/8/1919 aged 21 y/o (Mortuary record) , Osborn, Ina Apr. 29 1916 - Aug. 17 1933 , Smith, Austin D. Nov. 22 1941 aged 1 day , Winkler, Charles Samuel E. died 10/23/1918 aged 32 y/o (Mortuary record)." Note that the location given is an area of 40 acres. <br />
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In November 2020 an OCGS member noticed a burial card, dating from 1941, which mentioned a man who had been “buried at the Okmulgee county farm”. The name, Frank Grether, led to an obituary which also stated he had lived at the county farm. At 73, he had lived at the farm only 4 months and was ill the entire time. Otherthan being a “transient - sheep farmer from Wyoming”, nothing about him or his family had been mentioned by him prior to his death. <br />
Another OCGS member in 2020 launches his own campaign to find the "Potters Field" cemetery of Okmulgee. He explored the grounds and found 2 additional grave markers, both being metal funeral plaques with sliding letters. The plaques read as follows in 2020 (keep in mind letters may have shifted or fallen off through the years): "ULIAA SHIN 1919-1936 , DWAIN SMITH 1941-1941". Although not quite legible both markers appear to be from Buchanan Funeral Home. Interestingly, the 1971 inventory mentioned finding an Austin D. Smith who died in 1941 at age 1 day. Could these be one person named Austin Dwain Smith and the temporary marked grave had a stone added later? No evidence of any stone marker for Austin D Smith was found in 2020. <br />
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== References ==<br />
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==Links==<br />
*[https://ocgsnews.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/county-farm-4.pdf]<br />
*[https://www.okhistory.org/shpo/docs/wpa3notdoc.pdf]<br />
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[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Sunnyside_Lunatic_Asylum&diff=42178Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum2021-10-29T14:36:51Z<p>Squad546: </p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum<br />
| image = sunnyside.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1863<br />
| closed = 1999<br />
| demolished = 2007<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Echelon Plan Institutions|Echelon Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = Benjamin Mountfort<br />
| location = Christchurch, NZ<br />
| architecture_style = Victorian Gothic<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Sunnyside Hospital for the Insane<br />
*Hillmorton Hospital<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
Sunnyside Hospital, Christchurch’s first mental asylum, was opened in 1863. It was built to house those who were considered insane, before then they had been held at the Lyttelton jail. The hospital was closed in 1999 and demolition began on its last building in late April 2007, to make way for a Ngāi Tahu housing development.<br />
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[[Category:Aerial Image]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Lake_Alice_Hospital&diff=42176Lake Alice Hospital2021-10-29T14:21:38Z<p>Squad546: Added history</p>
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| name = Lake Alice Hospital<br />
| image = <br />
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| alt = <br />
| established = 1945<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| opened = 1950<br />
| closed = 1999<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Rangitikei, NZ<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
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==History==<br />
Layout plan proposing of the hospital showed that male patient’s accommodation was to occupy the southern half and female patients the northern half, which each half anticipated in 1945. 20 two storied 11 bed villas, 4 two storied 50 bed villas, 1 single story 60 bed villa for geriatric patients, giving a total of 50 villas of various types for 960 patients.<br />
Six occupational therapy buildings were to be placed around the western circumference, with three serving the female patients and three serving the male patients. This ambitious plan was apparently discarded following the change in government after the war<br />
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The hospital officially opened August 1950. A total of 21 patients were admitted the first day which followed by a further 27 on September 6th. There were no more intakes until following month when on October 1 another 3 arrived bringing the total number at Lake Alice for 1950 to 51. As the patient population increased so were the villas. Villa 8 had been the first villa occupied, but as transfers came in patients were dispersed to other villas, gradually opening them up until the entire hospital with the exception of Villa 7 and 10 were in use for patient accommodation. Villa 7 was used as a store, office, workshop and recreation centre. The first floor the north east dormitory was used as a picture theater and chapel, the centre dormitory as a billiard room. The south west dormitory was the workshop. Villa 10 was used to provide living quarters and catering facilities for single male staff as well as housing the head nurses office which was situated in charges office. The patients sick bay was located in the billiard room in Villa 8 and provided six beds.<br />
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The facility slowly shut down during the mid-1990s, finally shutting its doors in October 1999. The buildings and 56-hectare grounds were purchased in July 2006 by Auckland accountant and property developer group Lake Hicks Ltd. Plans to develop the former psychiatric hospital were scrapped after the owners fell into financial difficulties. The property was sold again in December 2008. The new owners intend to demolish most of the buildings including the infamous maximum security unit. A few buildings such as the Admin block will remain and the land will be used for farming.<br />
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In June 2021, the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care held an 11 day hearing into the practices of Selwyn Leeks and the Adolescent Unit.<br />
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[[Category:Closed Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Thomas_Embling_Hospital&diff=42175Thomas Embling Hospital2021-10-28T13:51:04Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Thomas Embling Hospital | image = | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = | construction_began = | construction_ended = |..."</p>
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| name = Thomas Embling Hospital<br />
| image = <br />
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| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 2000<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Melbourne, VIC<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
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==History==<br />
Thomas Embling Hospital is a secure forensic mental health hospital, located adjacent to extensive parklands in suburban Melbourne. The hospital provides acute and continuing care programs and includes a dedicated women’s unit. Patients are generally admitted to the hospital from the criminal justice system. The hospital was purpose designed and built to further the delivery of advanced clinical programs in the treatment of patients suffering from acute mental health issues.<br />
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[[Category:Active Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Kingsbury_Training_Centre&diff=42174Kingsbury Training Centre2021-10-28T13:44:10Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Kingsbury Training Centre | image = | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = | construction_began = | construction_ended =..."</p>
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| name = Kingsbury Training Centre<br />
| image = <br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established =<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1974<br />
| closed = 1996<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Bundoora, VIC<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
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==History==<br />
In 1974, the Kingsbury Training Centre commenced as a residential institution catering for patients with an intellectual disability, located in the large Mont Park site in Bundoora (along with a number of other institutions). Kingsbury was closed by 1996. In October 1997, the former residents of both Janefield and Kingsbury Training Centres whose support needs were assessed as high, we sent to purpose-built facilities, Plenty Residential Services community residential houses.<br />
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[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Greenvale_Sanatorium&diff=42165Greenvale Sanatorium2021-10-26T20:49:51Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Greenvale Sanatorium | image = | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = | construction_began = | construction_ended = | ope..."</p>
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| name = Greenvale Sanatorium<br />
| image = <br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established =<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1905<br />
| closed = 1998<br />
| demolished = 2006<br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Melbourne, VIC<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Greenvale Village for the Aged<br />
*Greenvale Geriatric Centre<br />
*Greenvale Centre<br />
*North West Hospital<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
The Sanatorium for Consumptives, Greenvale opened in 1905 to treat people, both adults and children, with tuberculosis. The historical term 'consumptive/consumption' refers to the associated weight loss that can be caused by tuberculosis. Greenvale was the first purpose-built Government sanatorium in Victoria. Tuberculosis caused one in nine deaths in Victoria in 1902. Accommodation was originally for 35 patients in seven tents, however this slowly expanded. In 1907, there were 19 staff: 1 x doctor, 1 x matron, 1 x staff nurse, 6 x assistant nurses, 1 x wardsmaid, 1 x kitchenmaid, 2 x housemaids, 2 x cooks, 1 x driver, 1 x engine driver, and 2 x porters. In 1906-1907, the average length of stay was 74 days.<br />
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The Sanatorium was primarily for "patients in reduced circumstances". Preference was given to "those living in condition under which improvement is impossible or in dwellings in which their presence is dangerous to the other inmates (sic)". Those in a position to pay fees were directed elsewhere, although patients were expected to contribute what they could afford. From 1924 to 1952, only female patients were admitted to Greenvale. From 1924, male patients were accommodated at Amhurst Sanatorium (south of Maryborough), which opened in December 1908. At the time of opening, it admitted only female patients.<br />
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A new two story brick administration building was built in 1940. Four new boomerang shaped timber wards with 24 beds each were built around the same time, making a total of 172 available beds by 1942. However by 1945 the original sanatorium buildings were no longer being used so the capacity went back down to 96. The "old weatherboard buildings at the south of the site" which were demolished in 1973 were presumably the original sanatorium. In 1949-50 a four story ward building was built, usually called the Percy Everett building after it's designer, who was chief architect in the Public Works Department. It had a boomerang shape to match the earlier timber buildings which surrounded it, and included a 400 seat theatre. It's 144 beds brought the total capacity of the sanatorium to 236.<br />
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Not long after the Percy Everett building was finished new drug treatments for Tuberculosis made the sanatorium redundant. The complex was transferred to the Hospital and Charities Commission and became what we would now call an Aged Care Facility and a rehabilitation facility for the elderly, with the first 24 patients admitted in December 1955. It was known as the Greenvale Village for the Aged with the name followed in brackets by "Special Hospital for the Aged". It was renamed the Greenvale Geriatric Centre in 1972, and then the Greenvale Centre in 1984/84. In 1991 there was a merger with Mount Royal Hospital under the name North-West Hospital.<br />
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Not long after the Percy Everett building was finished new drug treatments for Tuberculosis made the sanatorium redundant. The complex was transferred to the Hospital and Charities Commission and became what we would now call an Aged Care Facility and a rehabilitation facility for the elderly, with the first 24 patients admitted in December 1955. It was known as the Greenvale Village for the Aged with the name followed in brackets by "Special Hospital for the Aged". It was renamed the Greenvale Geriatric Centre in 1972, and then the Greenvale Centre in 1984/84. In 1991 there was a merger with Mount Royal Hospital under the name North-West Hospital.<br />
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In 1998 the hospital was closed. In the subsequent years thieves and vandals largely had the run of the place. Demolition started in May 2005 and all the buildings were gone by the end of 2006, apart from a timber patient hut, which was the only building to obtain heritage protection.<br />
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[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Heatherton_Hospital&diff=42162Heatherton Hospital2021-10-26T19:51:34Z<p>Squad546: Redirected page to Heatherton Sanatorium</p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Heatherton Sanatorium<br />
| image = <br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established =<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1913<br />
| closed = 1998<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Heatherton, VIC<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Heatherton Hospital (1974–98)<br />
*Heatherton Psychiatric Hospital (1987–98)<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
In May 1913, the Victorian Public Health Department opened the Heatherton Sanatorium for the treatment of people with tuberculosis with a capacity of 100 beds.<br />
Operational funding for the sanatorium came from the Victorian Government and municipalities and it was administratively linked to the nearby Melbourne Benevolent Asylum.<br />
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By the late 1940s, the Commonwealth Government Health Department took over the Heatherton Sanatorium. In the early 1950s, the sanatorium housed 260 tuberculosis patients in wards, wings and blocks that separately housed adult males, adult females and children. A five-storey nurses’ home was built. By the late 1950s, the number of tuberculosis patients had declined and other hospitals, such as Prince Henry’s and the Austin Hospital, started using parts of Heatherton for their own services. A state primary school, no. 4982, operated to meet the needs of young patients.<br />
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In 1974, the Alcohol and Drug Dependant Persons Services Branch took over two wings at Heatherton. In 1976, the Commonwealth Government returned full responsibility for the facility to the Victorian Government and its name changed to Heatherton Hospital. In the 1980s, system reviews led to the closure of Willsmere Hospital, Kew whose patients were admitted to Heatherton in 1987. Heatherton Hospital was also declared a psychiatric hospital for the elderly. In the 1990s, system reviews saw Heatherton associated with the Kingston Centre (the successor to the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum). In 1998, Heatherton Hospital closed.<br />
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[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Macleod_Sanatorium&diff=42160Macleod Sanatorium2021-10-26T14:35:05Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Macleod Sanatorium | image = | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = | construction_began = | construction_ended = | opene..."</p>
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| name = Macleod Sanatorium<br />
| image = <br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established =<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1916<br />
| closed = 1993<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Bundoora, VIC<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Macleod Military Sanatorium<br />
*Macleod Repatriation Hospital<br />
*Veterans’ Affairs Aged Care Facility<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
The Military Sanatorium Macleod was opened in 1916 to provide care for military veterans with tuberculosis, catering exclusively for soldiers. It was located on the eastern slope of Gresswell Hill in the Mont Park hospitals complex. Since it was a Sanatorium, patients were to be exposed to fresh air and sunlight to aid their recovery, and could do light work. Visitors came via the railway to Macleod or Watsonia stations which were about a mile away (1500 m). Families also came from Heidelberg station. The Red Cross generously provided cars to pick up visitors from the stations.<br />
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In 1921 the Repatriation Department took over administration of the Macleod Sanatorium from the Defence Department. By 1922 the Red Cross Society had raised funds to have a croquet lawn installed for the veterans as well as installing a veranda to cover the porches. A tennis court, gym equipment, a laundry and reading and music facilities also resulted from fundraising efforts. Local groups from Greensborough, Eltham and Hurstbridge provided weekly afternoon teas with cakes, and flowers to decorate the tables for the men. Distinguished guests such as the Governor and Melbourne Mayors often visited according to the newspapers of the day, and the wards were then decorated with bunting and flowers.<br />
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The long wards all ran north-south on the Gresswell Hill, stepped down along the quite steep eastern slopes, and had quite pleasant views. Levelled out areas near the base of the hill were utilised as a tennis court and croquet lawn. Men were encouraged to play a variety of sports and worked on the surrounding land producing copious vegetables and tending poultry. Other work therapy for the purpose of retraining the men, involved leather work, wood work, building construction and concreting.<br />
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During the 1940s there had been substantial building work, and ultimately the Macleod Hospital was productively re-purposed in 1960. From a Sanatorium it became the Macleod Repatriation Hospital, and at about the same time, Gresswell Hospital became a public Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre. TB was no longer a widespread and debilitating problem because drug treatment and vaccination had become available, and the facilities could be revamped. By the 1980s Macleod was known as a Veterans’ Affairs Aged Care Facility, with occupational therapy, physiotherapy and social work services for the veterans and some of their widows.<br />
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In 1993 Macleod was closed and the whole Mont Park site was developed for housing as the Springthorpe Estate. Fortunately much vegetation still exists in the spacious public areas of Gresswell Hill and the Gresswell Reserve. Some very old river red gums and pine trees planted 100 years ago remain, and kangaroos thrive in the surrounding popular bushy Reserves.<br />
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<div>==Psychiatric Hospitals==<br />
* [[Ararat Lunatic Asylum]]<br />
* [[Ballarat Hospital for the Insane]]<br />
* [[Beechworth Lunatic Asylum]]<br />
* [[Brierly Mental Hospital]]<br />
* [[Bundoora Repatriation Mental Hospital]]<br />
* [[Collingwood Lunatic Asylum]]<br />
* [[Heatherton Hospital]]<br />
* [[Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives]]<br />
* [[Kew Idiot Asylum]]<br />
* [[Kew Lunatic Asylum]]<br />
* [[Kingsbury Training Centre]]<br />
* [[Larundel Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Mont Park Asylum]]<br />
* [[Plenty Valley Repatriation Asylum]]<br />
* [[Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Sunbury Lunatic Asylum]]<br />
* [[Thomas Embling Hospital]]<br />
* [[Yarra Bend Asylum]]<br />
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==Sanatoriums==<br />
* [[Greenvale Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Gresswell Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Heatherton Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Macleod Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Watsonia Sanatorium]]<br />
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[[Category:Australia]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Plenty_Valley_Repatriation_Asylum&diff=42158Plenty Valley Repatriation Asylum2021-10-26T14:19:20Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Plenty Valley Repatriation Asylum | image = | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = 1959 | construction_began = | construct..."</p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Plenty Valley Repatriation Asylum<br />
| image = <br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1959<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1963<br />
| closed = 1991<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Bundoora, VIC<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Plenty Mental Hospital<br />
*Plenty Psychiatric Hospital<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
Plenty Hospital was gazetted as a separate institution in 1963 with 12 wards and Dr G.L. Rollo was the Acting Psychiatrist Superintendent, after Dr A. Arnaud Reid (the Psychiatrist Superintendent) had helped establish the facility. There were six wards for 237 men and six wards for the 237 women. Only three of these wards were locked, to prevent these elderly patients from wandering. At the end of 1964, Plenty Mental Hospital had 533 patients on the books, increasing to 553 by the end of 1965. Plenty Hospital utilised some of the very first buildings erected on the Mont Park site, and two of these structures still remain in the Springthorpe Estate – now refurbished as units. They were the Plenty Ward D, the former Plenty Female Convalescent Ward built in 1939 (now Kingsbury Gardens, Main Drive) and Plenty Wards E and F, now units opposite Kingsbury Gardens but facing onto Ernest Jones Drive.<br />
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Plenty was one of three psychiatric institutions (Plenty, Larundel and Mont Park) on a large campus at Bundoora. At the time, this was still Melbourne’s north east fringe. Like Larundel and Mont Park, Plenty had a mix of acute and extended-care wards, with the latter having a number of long-term patients.<br />
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In September 1971, buildings known as Wards C and R were separately proclaimed the Plenty Psychiatric Hospital. In 1980, Ward D and Ward M (rooms 1 and 4) were also removed from the Mental Hospital and added to the Plenty Psychiatric Hospital. Plenty was one of several hospitals that were gradually split off from the Mont Park administration to form separate entities. They were the Macleod Repatriation Hospital (1915), the Bundoora Repatriation Hospital (1920), the Gresswell Sanatorium (1933), Larundel Mental Hospital (1938 opened 1951), the Plenty Mental Hospital (1963) and the Kingsbury Training Centre (1974).<br />
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By 1985, Bundoora had been overtaken by suburban sprawl. In 1991, Plenty amalgamated with Mont Park and Larundel Hospitals to become the North Eastern Metropolitan Psychiatric Services (NEMPS).<br />
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Mont Park Asylum<br />
| image = montpark.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1909<br />
| construction_began = 1910<br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1911<br />
| closed = 1999<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]<br />
| building_style = [[Echelon Plan Institutions|Echelon Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Darebin City, VIC<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Mont Park Hospital for the Insane<br />
}}<br />
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== History ==<br />
The Royal Park Receiving House and aligned Royal Park Mental Hospital were established at the same time as Mont Park and all sites were intended to work as an integrated system to address the classification of ‘recoverable’ from ‘chronic’insanity. The 53 acre site for the 120 bed Mental Hospital was in proximity to the 14acre site of the 40 bed Receiving House on the fringes of Royal Park, next to the Moonee Ponds Creek. If the patient was considered ‘recoverable’ after observation inthe Receiving House, a transfer was arranged to the adjoining Royal Park Mental Hospital for a maximum six month admission prior to a release back to the community. If the patient was deemed incurable or chronic, a transfer was arranged to institutions such as Mont Park.<br />
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The former Mont Park/Bundoora Psychiatric and Repatriation Hospitals Complex consisted of seven hospitals on a site of 185 hectares. The site comprising the Mont Park and Strathallen estates was consolidated by the Victorian government by purchase and transfer from the Closer Settlement Board in 1909 . The Mont Park Hospital commenced in 1910 with the building of the Farm Workers Block (later part of Kingsbury Training Centre). In 1912 the landscape gardener Hugh Linaker was employed to layout the grounds of Mont Park and other State mental hospitals. The other hospitals were gradually split off from the Mont Park administration to form separate entities. These were the Macleod Repatriation Hospital (1915), the Bundoora Repatriation Hospital (1920), the Gresswell Sanatorium (1933), Larundel Mental Hospital (1938 opened 1951), the Plenty Mental Hospital (1963) and the Kingsbury Training Centre (1974). The site under consideration consists of the former Mont Park and Plenty Hospitals.<br />
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An agreement was made with the Defence Department in 1914 for the latter to erect the Mont Park central block (the "Chronic Wards") for use as a Military Hospital, and for it later to revert to the State as portion of Mont Park Hospital. The buildings now known as the Chronic Wards were completed in this way in 1916 and used as the Australian General Hospital no. 16 for the duration of the war. One wing of this building was set aside for mental patients during this period.<br />
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The Military Mental Hospital was built in 1919 to accommodate 84 patients who were suffering from psychiatric conditions as a result of their service in World War I. It was occupied by military patients until 1933 when they were transferred to Commonwealth facilities. The Military Mental Hospital consisted of a two storey brick Administration Building with two single-storey pavilion wards and a single-storey kitchen-dining room pavilion at the rear, connected with covered ways. The ward sections of the Military Mental Hospital have undergone considerable alteration. A two-storey brick building was constructed in the 1970s in front of the Administration Block and attached to it at the central porch.<br />
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The Ernest Jones Hall, named after the Inspector General of the Victorian Lunacy Department, was a combined chapel and entertainment hall constructed 1927-1930 in the Spanish Mission style.<br />
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The Avenue of Honour planted in 1919 consists of a row of 46 Sugar Gums planted by returned soldiers who were hospitalized in the number 16 Australian General Hospital (Chronic Wards) at Mont Park. Further plantings were made after World War II. The empty land was used for the establishment of La Trobe University in 1967. It is now the site of Springthorpe Housing Development. Part of the old patient hospital was taken over by La Trobe University for the Graduate School of Management/Business.<br />
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==Images==<br />
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[[Category:Past Featured Article Of The Week]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Janefield_Colony_for_the_Treatment_of_Mental_Defectives&diff=42156Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives2021-10-26T13:58:38Z<p>Squad546: </p>
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| name = Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives<br />
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| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established =<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1937<br />
| closed = 1996<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Bundoora, VIC<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Janefield Colony for Mental Defectives<br />
*Janefield Training Centre<br />
*Janefield Special School<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
The site of the Janefield Colony was formerly the site of the Janefield Sanatorium, a training farm for tuberculosis patients, run by the Australian Red Cross Society from 1920 to 1933. The first children were transferred to Janefield from Kew Cottages in 1937. In 1940, the Director of Mental Hygiene, Dr Catarinich, stated that he envisaged Janefield as a farm colony for 1,000 mental deficients (at that time, it only had accommodation for 150, and only accommodated girls). Catarinich claimed that the Mental Deficiency Bill would be proclaimed 'as soon as Janefield is sufficiently developed, and directly the public gets to know that the facilities are available, it is certain that we will be swamped with numbers.'<br />
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Some children who, having reached the age of 14 and still requiring institutional care, were transferred from the institution at Travancore to Janefield. A heritage study from 1990 described the originally accommodation at the Janefield Colony thus: 'In 1937 the total accommodation available in the existing buildings - Ward A (later the painters and carpenters shops) and Wards B and C amounted to 100 beds. The two storeyed administrative building, including a flat for the chief nurse and quarters for nurses, and brick ward were occupied in 1939. By 1940 there were 126 patients.'<br />
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By 1947, a nursery was opened for babies with ‘mental retardation’. By 1952, 235 young girls and young boys lived at Janefield. Some had been diagnosed as having Downs Syndrome, hypothyroidism, phenylketonuria or other disabilities. At this time, some of the children were incorrectly classified as ‘intellectually disabled’ and with appropriate training and care, subsequently achieved adult independence.<br />
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Boys had been admitted from 1945 and they helped with all the farm work, from harvesting to caring for the dairy cows, pigs, poultry and sheep. Construction of a ward for boys commenced in 1940 but was not completed until 1945. By 1955, there were 7 wards at Janefield, and the Colony housed 274 patients. In 1962, Janefield was proclaimed a Training Centre under the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1959. In 1996, residents of Janefield were transferred to other services for intellectually disabled people.<br />
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[[Category:Closed Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:AUSjanefield3.png&diff=42155File:AUSjanefield3.png2021-10-26T13:55:25Z<p>Squad546: Unknown building, 1940s photo</p>
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<div>Unknown building, 1940s photo</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:AUSjanefield2.png&diff=42154File:AUSjanefield2.png2021-10-26T13:54:48Z<p>Squad546: Patient cottage, 1940s photo</p>
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<div>Patient cottage, 1940s photo</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:AUSjanefield1.png&diff=42153File:AUSjanefield1.png2021-10-26T13:54:02Z<p>Squad546: 1940s photo, patient cottage.</p>
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<div>1940s photo, patient cottage.</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Janefield_Colony_for_the_Treatment_of_Mental_Defectives&diff=42152Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives2021-10-25T20:57:58Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives | image = | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = | construction_beg..."</p>
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| name = Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives<br />
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| established =<br />
| construction_began = <br />
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| opened = 1937<br />
| closed = 1996<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Bundoora, VIC<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Janefield Colony for Mental Defectives<br />
*Janefield Training Centre<br />
*Janefield Special School<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
The site of the Janefield Colony was formerly the site of the Janefield Sanatorium, a training farm for tuberculosis patients, run by the Australian Red Cross Society from 1920 to 1933. The first children were transferred to Janefield from Kew Cottages in 1937. In 1940, the Director of Mental Hygiene, Dr Catarinich, stated that he envisaged Janefield as a farm colony for 1,000 mental deficients (at that time, it only had accommodation for 150, and only accommodated girls). Catarinich claimed that the Mental Deficiency Bill would be proclaimed 'as soon as Janefield is sufficiently developed, and directly the public gets to know that the facilities are available, it is certain that we will be swamped with numbers.'<br />
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Some children who, having reached the age of 14 and still requiring institutional care, were transferred from the institution at Travancore to Janefield. A heritage study from 1990 described the originally accommodation at the Janefield Colony thus: 'In 1937 the total accommodation available in the existing buildings - Ward A (later the painters and carpenters shops) and Wards B and C amounted to 100 beds. The two storeyed administrative building, including a flat for the chief nurse and quarters for nurses, and brick ward were occupied in 1939. By 1940 there were 126 patients.'<br />
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Construction of a ward for boys commenced in 1940 but was not completed until 1945. By 1955, there were 7 wards at Janefield, and the Colony housed 274 patients. In 1962, Janefield was proclaimed a Training Centre under the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1959. In 1996, residents of Janefield were transferred to other services for intellectually disabled people.<br />
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[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Bundoora_Repatriation_Mental_Hospital&diff=42151Bundoora Repatriation Mental Hospital2021-10-25T20:45:58Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Bundoora Repatriation Mental Hospital | image = AUSbundoora1.png | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = | construction_began..."</p>
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| name = Bundoora Repatriation Mental Hospital<br />
| image = AUSbundoora1.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established =<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1923<br />
| closed = 1993<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]] (Partially)<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Bundoora, VIC<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Bundoora Convalescent Farm <br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
Bundoora Homestead was built in 1899 for JMV Smith, a prominent identity in the horse breeding and racing industry. The 606 acre (245.2 hectare) property known as Bundoora Park, operated as a horse and cattle stud and was home to race horses. In the years before the outbreak of World War I, the Smith children married and moved away to other properties in Victoria and England. By then, JMV Smith was a senior gentleman and his health had began to deteriorate. With no options for the continuation of the business and estate within the family, in 1920, Bundoora Park was offered for sale for the considerable sum of £29,000. A report to cabinet, signed by Edward Millen, Australia’s first Minister for Repatriation and Minister for Defence (1913–14), identified Bundoora Park as a prime location for the establishment of a convalescent farm.<br />
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The Mental Treatment Act 1915 had allowed for ex-service patients to obtain mental health treatment voluntarily . In 1915 a ward at Mont Park (VA 2846) was taken over as a Convalescent Military Hospital. An agreement was made with the Defence Department for the latter to erect the Mont Park central block for use as a Military Hospital. This hospital was generally referred to as the Military Mental Hospital or the Military Mental Block, and primarily catered for ex-military personnel with chronic psychiatric illness.<br />
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There was also a hospital variously known as the Bundoora Farm or Homestead or the Repatriation Mental Hospital built on or near the current site of the Bundoora Repatriation Hospital. In April 1920, the Commonwealth bought Bundoora Park - 600 acres with a substantial homestead and various cottages, sheds and stables. The combined facility became Mont Park Military Mental Wards - a halfway house between treatment and discharge. It aimed to treat returned soldiers suffering from trauma and mental illness as a result of their war service through the provision of fresh air and gentle farm work.<br />
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In 1923, the property was transferred to the Repatriation Commission and in 1924 the Bundoora Homestead (initially known as Bundoora Convalescent Farm, sometimes the Bundoora Park Curative Farm) was opened as Hospital Ward 2. These changes were due to the growing patient numbers and awareness of their need for complex, long term care. The Bundoora Park Homestead, the principle building of the repatriation facility, later became an arts centre. The building, located on Snake Gully Road, Bundoora, was originally built for racing identity John Matthew Vincent Smith, completed in 1900. It was purchased by the Government, specifically the Repatriation Commission, in 1920.<br />
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The construction of the separate military mental health facility, away from Mont Park (VA 2846), was in response to pressure from returned servicemen's organisations to protect shell-shocked patients from the stigma of mental illness by removing them from the general psychiatric patient population in Mont Park. The military block at Mont Park was closed in 1924 and handed back to the State for civilian mental cases. The Victoria Gazette (No. 175, Wednesday October 8, 1924, p. 3175) proclaimed that the institution, to be known as 'Repatriation Mental Hospital "B"', was "to be exclusively used for the reception, care, and treatment of mental patients", to take effect from the 1st April, 1924. In October, 1924 the Mont Park facility was named Repatriation Mental Hospital "A", and the Bundoora site named Repatriation Mental Hospital "B".<br />
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The Victoria Gazette (No. 74, Wednesday April 12, 1933, p. 1183) proclaimed to revoke the above proclamation made in October 1924, and the institution was to be then known as 'Repatriation Mental Hospital, Bundoora' (VA 2846), as "an institution to be exclusively used for the reception, care, and treatment of mental treatment patients". In 1933 all the military patients from Mont Park were transferred to the Bundoora Repatriation Mental Hospital. Over the years eight more wards were built, giving the hospital a capacity of 291 beds by 1968.<br />
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In 1950 the hospital had 200 patients. Only patients who had an entitlement for psychiatric disorder due to war service were admitted. Many patients were admitted and discharged more than once, some up to 15 times over a period of years. Bundoora Repatriation Hospital benefitted from active volunteers, especially from the Red Cross and Returned Servicemen's League.<br />
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From approximately 1984-93, the Bundoora Repatriation Hospital (VA 2846) was jointly funded by the Office of Psychiatric Services and Department of Veteran Affairs under a State/Commonwealth agreement. Returned servicemen with mental health issues were cared for at the Bundoora Repatriation Hospital until its official closure in October 1993. Most of the buildings were demolished to make way for suburban housing. Several buildings were refurbished for other uses.<br />
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==Images==<br />
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[[Category:Demolished Institution]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:AUSbundoora1977.png&diff=42150File:AUSbundoora1977.png2021-10-25T20:45:37Z<p>Squad546: Aerial photo, 1977
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<div>Aerial photo, 1977<br />
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[[Category:Aerial Image]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=File:AUSbundoora1.png&diff=42149File:AUSbundoora1.png2021-10-25T20:43:24Z<p>Squad546: Original homestead building used as hospital ward. Circa 1980s photo</p>
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<div>Original homestead building used as hospital ward. Circa 1980s photo</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Port_Arthur_Insane_Asylum&diff=42148Port Arthur Insane Asylum2021-10-25T16:21:11Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Port Arthur Insane Asylum | image = AUSportarthur1870s.png | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = | construction_began = |..."</p>
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| opened = 1868<br />
| closed = 1877<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
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| location = Port Arthur<br />
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==History==<br />
The Asylum was the last major structure to be built at Port Arthur before it closed in 1877. Its construction was paid for by the British Government. Because of the age of the few remaining convicts on-site, the authorities had to employ tradesmen to build it. It was completed in 1868. The Asylum originally had four wings radiating from a central dining room. The front of the building was trimmed with an open veranda, which fronted onto a large fenced garden. It was flanked by a keepers’ quarters and a bakehouse, both of which were ‘L’ shaped. To the rear was a long wooden building that served as accommodation for the Asylum’s more rowdy occupants. In keeping with the times, treatment for the patients (many suffering from depression or mental afflictions) was rudimentary at best. Convict patients were provided with a ‘soothing’ atmosphere, where they were allowed exercise and mild amusement.<br />
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After Port Arthur closed 1877, the Asylum remained in Government hands until 1889, when it was handed over to the Carnarvon Town Board for use as their town hall. Bushfires in 1895 damaged the building’s clock tower and north wing. The north wing was never rebuilt, but the clock tower was promptly repaired and re-pointed at a different angle. The Asylum was subsequently used as a community hall and a public school. The local council also used the building as its chambers until 1973. Today, the Asylum features a small museum and a coffee shop.<br />
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<div></div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Baillie_Henderson_Hospital&diff=42146Baillie Henderson Hospital2021-10-25T16:09:46Z<p>Squad546: </p>
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| name = Baillie Henderson Hospital<br />
| image = AUSToowoomba1888.png<br />
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| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1885<br />
| construction_began = 1887<br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1890<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Active Institution|Active]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = J.J. Clark<br />
| location = North Toowoomba<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population = 1953, 1228 patients<br />
| alternate_names = <br><br />
*Toowoomba Lunatic Asylum 1890-1898<br />
*Toowoomba Hospital for the Insane 1898-1940<br />
*Toowoomba Mental Hospital 1940-1963<br />
*Toowoomba Special Hospital 1963-1970<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
===Early Years===<br />
Toowoomba, one hundred and twenty miles by road from Brisbane, had been linked by rail with Brisbane in 1867 and was known as the gateway to the west and south. The town, with a population of about ten thousand people, was the center of a developing agricultural and industrial region. It was becoming quite a cultural and educational center with its Austral Hall and schools. At two thousand feet, its climate was cool and fresh, giving it the reputation of being a healthy place. Brisbane people came for holidays, mothers came from the west to have their babies, and men came to trade horses and property. The many wide verandah’d hotels did as good a trade in family accommodation as in alcohol. The Toowoomba Base Hospital was proving an important treatment center for the Downs and country areas. Toowoomba seemed ideal for an asylum outstation.<br />
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Planning a public facility in Queensland took a long time last century as decisions were made by the British Parliament. All correspondence was with the Colonial Secretary in London and had to go by sea. After some initial exploratory work at the Australian end correspondence which began in 1877 led to approval in 1878 to build on one hundred and seventy-five acres (71 hectares) near Toowoomba. The cost of the land was £2,800.<br />
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In 1885 the Colonial Architect, J.J. Clark, drew a sketch plan of the land and even then recommended the purchase of more land. A plan for the asylum was ready by December.<br />
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The Department of Public Works and Mines called tenders on 29th July, 1886 for the contract to erect “a Lunatic Asylum at Toowoomba". The plans, drawn up by the Government Architect were for buildings similar to those built in England at the time with verandas added for Australian conditions. Plans for the first stage could be examined at the Toowoomba Court House where a deposit of one hundred pounds had to be lodged with each tender. The price accepted for the first section of four buildings was £28,750.<br />
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This was made by Mr. James Renwick, whose deposit was lodged with the Bank of New South Wales as a fixed deposit. The work was supervised by George Conolly as Colonial Architect. The land purchased for the asylum adjoined the Police Paddock, where there were some initial problems when Mr. Renwick's employees camped on the paddock. Permission was sought and refused to quarry and make bricks there.<br />
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The main buildings were brick and it is probable that the bricks for the first wards came to Australia as ballast in the holds of ships. Some bricks, dated 1842, can be seen built into walls. By mid 1887 most of the bricks were being made at Murphy's Creek. The brick walls stood on concrete foundations and the roofs were of corrugated iron. Tenders for a residence for the medical superintendent were called in the Queensland Gazette early in 1889 requiring a £30 deposit. This contract also went to Mr. Renwick. In the middle of the year, tenders were called for the building of an assistant medical superintendent's residence. The Gazette invited contractors to supply ironmongery, drapery, stationery, furniture, china, and glass in 1890.<br />
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Long lists of requirements were made. These were for carpenter's tools, general ironmongery including horse combs, a large bell to weigh 20lbs. and swing on an iron frame, stone breakers and grubbing axes. Numbers of hurricane hand lamps, a large fuel stove, heavy pots and pans, earthenware and enamel cups, saucers and plates and cutlery were itemized. Details of furniture and bedding were specified. Amongst the desks one was to be a cedar table six feet by three feet six inches with the best blue carriage cloth top, five inch turned legs, two drawers and the best lever locks polished. The iron bedsteads were to be as made at Woogaroo. The first mattresses were to be hair mattresses with sturdy tick.<br />
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Mr. Keogh's tender from Ipswich for furniture was accepted in June 1889. The present charming Willowburn Railway Station was just a stop along the line where a siding known as Asylum Siding was built for unloading materials for the new asylum. The contractor had to pay half the cost. For many years, goods and people came “up the line" from Brisbane or Goodna to this siding, to be met by horse or hand carts for heavy items or an escort to accompany them as they walked up the slope to the asylum.<br />
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The buildings, once built, stood empty for some time after they were finished, to the annoyance of the administrators in Brisbane who were trying to cope with increasing admissions. The delay was due to the lack of a reliable water supply. From the beginning there had been problems between the Department and the local Council over providing water. At first, water was carted daily from a well near the present K.R.Darling Downs Factory. <br />
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Very soon this supply was inadequate. By September 1889, arrangements had been made to pump water from a better well in the Toowoomba Railway yard. In April, 1890 William and John Erskine tendered £332.10s to sink and slab a well in the Lunatic Asylum Reserve. In June that year the Toowoomba Foundry Company Ltd. sent a sketch of a windmill suggesting one should be installed for pumping water. The delay was exacerbated by many of the pipes arriving broken from Sydney on the "Barcoo" due to severe weather on the voyage. Eventually enough water could then be pumped to a reservoir on the hill for distribution to all buildings. Water was needed for general household, farming and gardening work but not for sewerage as earth closets were used.<br />
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Finally the authorities decided buildings, equipment and staff were ready for inmates to be admitted. There were the four main brick buildings, exercise yards with ten foot high hardwood fencing, furniture and equipment for a modern asylum and staff appointed for maintenance of the property and others ready at to accompany the first inmates.<br />
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It is clear from the records that Doctors Scholes and Hogg selected the first patients from for transfer to Toowoomba according to the following criteria: Good physical health, links with Toowoomba or the area beyond, and some ability to work. The first ten, who arrived on 17th May, 1890, were women capable of working in the kitchen and laundry. Many of the larger group of men and women who came three days later were soon at work chopping and carting wood, building paths and fences, working in wards, sewing and doing kitchen and laundry work. <br />
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The patients travelled by train with their attendants. The male attendants were recruited from the prison service and they wore blue serge suits with metal buttons and wide brimmed hats. In summer they wore a khaki uniform, also with metal buttons. The female attendants were untrained. They wore blue serge dresses with white cuffs and collars and white aprons. All trooped up from the Asylum Siding to be greeted by Dr. Hogg and Mr. Burn. Together they laid the foundation of the community that became home to generations of patients and staff.<br />
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At the turn of the century, the young hospital impressed rail travellers as their trains chugged up the Range. Its massive buildings stood out starkly and were described in the Darling Downs Advertiser and Gazette as "The Lion of Toowoomba … set in a noble park over Gowrie Creek." The land around was being developed like a country property with plenty of well controlled, if sometimes reluctant labour. Dr. Nicoll was very conscious of the practical problems of country living and their effects on health and behaviour. Some such problems were overcrowding which provoked disturbances in wards and dining areas; flies causing ophthalmia; drought with its subsequent water shortages restricting bathing, laundry and cleaning; and heatwaves leading to sunstroke.<br />
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===WW 1===<br />
The 1914-18 War hardly affected the hospital. There were some economic restrictions and three attendants joined the A.I.F. but the life of the hospital had to continue. The building programme went on with four wards and a hospital block being completed in 1917. The hospital within the hospital (now Tredgold) boasted a bath, hand basins on wheels and a disinfecting room. Considerable effort went into building gardens on the female side and into increasing recreational opportunities. Maintenance, as buildings and fittings aged, white ants and dry rot in the floors and cracks in some of the older wards, drought causing water shortages and crop failures, stretched the steward and his staff.<br />
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The engineer had to use two assistants to pump water in shifts up to the reservoirs. In 1913, the railway authorities had given notice that it was unable to supply any more water. All water then was pumped from a well in the hospital grounds to a reservoir at the top of the hill. In 1915 a new pumping house improved reticulation so that water closets could be built into the new wards.<br />
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In the inter-war period, caring reflected a military style system whereby staff had long hours and formal ward inspections. Patients were made to rise early in the morning, put on, or have put on, whatever issue clothing was most intact and cleanest. It did not help when some patients shredded bedding, clothes and even tore blucher boots. Toileting was primitive and the smells in the buildings by morning were overwhelming for new staff, let alone for patients used to the fresh air of the bush. Beds had to be made and everywhere tidy before the breakfast arrived at 7.00a.m. Food was always plentiful and similar to that provided for men in stock camps. Food was delivered in big tins and bread in huge baskets. Breakfast was corn meal and porridge followed by bread and treacle.<br />
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The farm workers rose first and went off to their jobs. Other able patients went to other tasks such as ward cleaning or lighting the kitchen range. It is worth saying that many patients were well most of the time and these considered themselves superior to the wet, dirty, sloppy, rowdy patients. The men in the gangs and the women who worked in the sewing room, kitchen and laundry looked after themselves with a minimum of supervision and many "adopted" the more helpless patients and helped look after them. Workers generally took pride in their work and built up good relations with staff. These were the ones who helped build up the community spirit with staff, establishing a tradition of pride which carried through to recent times when men boasted "I worked on the farm", and women, "I helped in the sewing room." Smokes were often the reward for good behaviour and work. The workers were the ones who shared recreation with staff after work - football, cricket, quoits, dances, games and entertainment. Some patients even had occasional town outings.<br />
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Caring for the many who were deranged and the seriously retarded before modern medication was hard and distressing. Most staff survived with a spirit of camaraderie. A newcomer might be the butt of jokes at first, but as in any community, the one who was able to "take it" and come up laughing was accepted for good. Staff had to be alert enough to be a jump ahead to keep control of jobs and watch for signs of psychosis or disturbance. By 1927 the average daily residency was 598 males and 581 females. From the beginning there were always some who could be discharged because they had been inappropriately admitted or because they were considered to have recovered. Many were re-admitted, but always the tradition was kept that no-one was detained without good reason.<br />
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Many patients continued to come "up the line" from Goodna. Others were brought by the police from the south and west. Some arrived in canvas straight jackets to prevent them attacking their escorts. On admission a patient was kept in a room for a day or two under observation and then allowed into a yard with others. The observations made in the admission ward enabled staff to make broad classifications of patients. Patients in the twenties included those we would now say had psychiatric illnesses. There were also many including children who were intellectually handicapped (then described as mentally deficient, aments, dements, idiots, imbeciles), epileptics, alcoholics and people with G.P.I. (General Paralysis of the Insane). The assumption of society was that anyone seriously disturbing the peace that seemed unable to control themselves should be removed or "put away".<br />
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Medical staff strove to find cures for the conditions they identified. They and nursing staff observed and wrote their observations of each patient, and tried to provide skilful management of the various conditions year in and year out. This custodial care was restrictive to many patients and staff and not unlike military discipline, and yet it was tempered by sympathetic care especially for the young, sick and elderly. Overcrowding and difficulties with classifying patients in the large wards made treatment difficult. Staff worked long shifts e.g. 6.00a.m. to 6.00p.m. <br />
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During the day, staff members spent two hours at a time in yards with a variety of unpredictable patients, some of whom were aggressive enough to require physical restraint. In such cases, a staff member blew his whistle for someone to take his place by the fence while he restrained the disturbed patient. At night most patients slept in dormitories where there were rows of beds. Violent patients had single cell-like rooms with wooden shutters. Staff on night duty patrols had to clock in at fixed points. The unpredictability of some patients made life dangerous. Sudden changes of mood might mean a blow or kick or even a head charge strong enough to Jay out someone who turned his back or relaxed attention.<br />
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The improved knowledge available to medical staff in the thirties was illustrated in the way schizophrenia began to attract research interest. The Annual Report for 1937-38 said, "This mental disease, attacking as it does the promising youth of the community, presents a scourge that is probably greater than the combined effects of cancer and tuberculosis. The treatment of this condition has aroused world-wide interest." Research into a wide range of drugs focused attention on mental conditions in time for war casualties to benefit, and success with such treatment accelerated the psychological-neurological research focus.<br />
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Staff training improved and certificates for nursing staff became obligatory in time to match the new knowledge available to medical officers. The Handbook for Mental Nurses was reprinted in 1938 to include the advances in knowledge and to ensure nurses would be able to observe and report the effects of medication. In it advice was given on restraints for epileptics, delusional, suicidal and surgical cases, and there were warnings about them. "Now and then, it may be necessary to control the actions of such patients by mechanical restraint. This term signifies the restriction of the bodily movements of a patient by any appliance whatever, such as a sheet, bandage, towel, strait-waistcoat, strap or pack. Such restraint, of course, must never be applied except under medical order, which specifies both its nature and duration. If continued for more than a short time, the patient should be released from it every hour or so, and care should be taken to prevent any chafing of the skin. Any use of mechanical restraint must be reported to the Board of Control." <br />
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The Queensland Government's Mental Hygiene Act of 1938 was very significant legislation. It required active treatment for the mentally ill, and attempted to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness by referring to 'mentally sick patients' instead of 'lunatics' and using the words 'mental hospitals' not 'asylums for the insane'. Voluntary patients could be admitted and the powers of the Public Curator were written in modern language.<br />
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The war years inside the hospital were difficult in many ways. Admissions increased as families requested care for relatives with whom they could no longer cope at home. The rationing of food and fuel added to management difficulties and the need for accommodation was desperate. There was such a serious shortage of staff that nurses were reluctant to work in certain areas.<br />
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1945 saw the end of the War and changes to the Mental Hygiene Service. A Director in Brisbane planned a northern mental hospital, separate institutions for the criminal insane and for backward persons, special accommodation for returned soldiers, the elderly and epileptics. That year money was made available for improvements inside the hospital, for wireless sets, electrical equipment such as refrigerators, urns and toasters, and machinery for the kitchen and laundry.<br />
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Custodial care became easier as facilities and conditions improved. During the war, a large air-raid shelter was built. Towards the end of the war, the main building programme began again with the addition of fire escapes to Wards A and 1 and shelter sheds for Wards A, C, D and 1, 3 and 4. An occupational therapy building was mooted. New entrance gates, a proper blacksmith's shop, accommodation for the engineer, assistant engineer and assistant matrons were built. Town water and electricity were extended throughout the hospital and a toilet block built on the farm. The nurses’ quarters were enlarged and kitchen, laundry, sewing room and artisan facilities were improved.<br />
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===Post-War Years===<br />
Patient numbers reached a peak with nearly 1,400 in 1950. A new post war era with changing attitudes to mental illness and hopes of effective treatment also ushered in immense changes in the society to which the institution and its patients belonged. Smaller nuclear families, many urban, were replacing the extended rural families. The world was shrinking as communication through books, personal contact and the electronic media reached ordinary people. Migration, rapid transport and economic expansion made Toowoomba feel part of the wider changing world. The quiet country mental hospital was emerging like the rest of Australia into the bustling twentieth century.<br />
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In the early fifties activity in real work and in recreation was still expected of patients of all ages. Adults worked on the farm or in the garden, in wards, laundry, kitchen or sewing room. Some of the children attended Miss Dorothy King's school at the Rockville Epileptic Home. A playground with see-saws and swings was established for patients and their visitors. Recreational activities and entertainments were encouraged by Dr. Henderson. When Miss Watson arrived she re-introduced the annual fancy dress ball and began a hospital magazine and Christmas Carol service. Like Occupational Therapists through the years she had her eyes open to see how life could be enriched for patients and what was available for use.<br />
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A new Mental Health Act in 1962 ushered in a new era. The detention of psychiatric patients was made easier and a Mental Health Tribunal was set up as a safeguard to protect people from unnecessary detention. It sought the integration of mental health with the Health and Hospital Services of the State by developing psychiatric services in general hospitals to enable patients to be treated at community level and reduce the number requiring treatment in special hospitals. Handicapped children and geriatric patients were to have care and treatment in more appropriate areas. Toowoomba Mental Hospital, colloquially known as Willowburn, became Toowoomba Special Hospital. <br />
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As late as 1965 the Director said, "A unique situation exists at the Toowoomba Special Hospital. The Medical Superintendent has established a status in the community and developed such an atmosphere in his hospital that informed patients readily consent to admission to the hospital". He pointed out that the congestion made it imperative that an inpatient service be established at Toowoomba General Hospital.<br />
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In 1974 a new Mental Health Act allowed for both informal and regulated admissions to be implemented with consideration for patients and relatives, protection against unnecessary admission or continued detention, and attention to the mentally ill involved in criminal proceedings. <br />
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Just as country life for many people was changing so it was for the workers, both staff and patients, at the hospital. The dairy and vegetable gardens were closed in 1970 because they were considered to be no longer therapeutically valuable or justified economically. The therapeutic emphasis went on to community preparation. Any building or decoration came to be planned for greater similarity to life outside. Three modern low ceilinged hostel style houses designed to allow for personal privacy and possessions were built and named Digby, Tuke and Conolly. <ref>[http://bailliemuseum.wikidot.com/start]</ref><br />
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A psychiatric ward was established at Toowoomba General Hospital in 1979, staffed by Baillie Henderson paramedical and medical staff and by Toowoomba General nurses. Clinics at Baillie Henderson Hospital and Toowoomba General Hospital as well as the Day Hospital became the entry points for most people needing psychiatric treatment.<br />
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At the beginning of 1982 the hospital took over a complex on the hill above Bedford Street for the Alcohol Rehabilitation Unit and for K.B.H. Enterprises. This was a few kilometres away from the main base and was an attractive, new building around which staff and patients soon built a prize winning garden.<br />
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As inpatients established themselves in the wider Toowoomba community, wards became smaller in size (a maximum of thirty patients) and the old wards housing over 100 patients each, a thing of the past. Concurrently, staff were also redeployed in community support work and day hospitals and a new need; sadly arising from the increase in motor vehicle accident was able to be met.<br />
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===Today===<br />
The Extended Inpatient Service provides medium to long term inpatient assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for individuals who are sufficiently ill or disabled by their mental disorder to be unable to be cared for by their local integrated community and acute inpatient mental health services.<br />
Specialist services<br />
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Services are organised in to five specialized clinical programs; Services for persons with severe mental disorder, and associated severe disability requiring extended treatment and rehabilitation. Services for people with Dual Diagnosis (DD) of mental disorder and concomitant intellectual disability. Services for people with acquired brain injury and associated mental disorder and /or severe behaviour problems (ABI). Services for people who suffer a mental disorder and require treatment in a specialised secure facility. Services for persons aged 65 years and over who require both specialist psychiatric and aged care and who cannot be cared for in any other setting. <ref>[http://www.health.qld.gov.au/services/darlingdowns/ddowns-baillie-hosp.asp]</ref><br />
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Kenmore Mental Hospital<br />
| image = kenmore.jpg<br />
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| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = 1879<br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1895<br />
| closed = 2004<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]]<br />
| building_style = [[Echelon Plan Institutions|Echelon Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = Walter Liberty Vernon<br />
| location = Goulburn, NSW<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Kenmore Hospital<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
On 31 July 1894 the buildings on the Kenmore Estate, Goulburn, were appointed a Hospital for the Insane, on a site purchased for the purpose in 1879. By the end of 1894 temporary accommodation for 140 patients was ready, with hospital wards to be completed. Personnel were appointed to positions at Kenmore Hospital on 1 January 1895. Upon opening, 152 patients from other hospitals were transferred to Kenmore, with 146 male patients resident in the Hospital at the end of 1895. Although some wards were already occupied, it was anticipated that the hospital would be completed by June 1897, to provide services to the southern region of the State. By 1901, Kenmore Asylum had been completed, although small additions were expected in the future.<br />
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In 1909, tenders were received for the erection of two convalescent wards, one each for males and females. A new admission block and doctor's quarters was also proposed. The accepted tender involved a new admission block and a new administration block, costing £10,995. The asylum suffered considerable damage in 1912, where a fire broke out at 2 o'clock in a drying room. All of the clothing in the dryers was destroyed, and furnishings of the room were burnt; in addition, the value of this loss was considerable. The cause was unknown.<br />
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During World War II the facilities at Kenmore Hospital were made available for the psychiatric treatment of military personnel, with the Hospital under the control of the Commonwealth Government, Department of the Army, during 1941-1945 (known as 114 AGH Kenmore or 114 AGH Goulburn). <br />
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In June 1962 Kenmore Hospital had 1,107 patients resident, and operated as the acute psychiatric admission centre for the southern region, with services also provided to inebriate patients. <br />
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The property was sold to Australia China International Pty Ltd in March 2015 and it is planned to restore the once derelict building as Kenmore Gardens with likely uses to include retirement living, government services, or educational facilities. However, as of 2021, no work had been done.<br />
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[[Category:Aerial Image]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Grosvenor_Hospital&diff=42135Grosvenor Hospital2021-10-22T13:26:36Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Grosvenor Hospital | image = | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = | construction_began = | construction_ended = | opene..."</p>
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| name = Grosvenor Hospital<br />
| image = <br />
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| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1965<br />
| closed = 2010<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = Sydney, NSW <br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Grosvenor Centre<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
Grosvenor Hospital was a psychiatric facility and disability institution established by the New South Wales Government at Summer Hill in 1965. It was operated by the Health Department and occupied the buildings that had formerly been the Benevolent Society's Renwick Home for Infants, Summer Hill. It provided care for children until the 1980s. In 1985 it stopped being listed as a hospital for the developmentally disabled and became known as the Grosvenor Centre.<br />
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It was run by the Department of Health until 1989 when it was transferred to the Department of Community Services. In the 1998 the NSW Government announced that residential care models for people with disabilities were out-dated and all current residential accommodation would close by 2010. In 2001 the Grosvenor Centre was transferred to the Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care. In the 2008-2009 financial year the 20 remaining residents were transferred to purpose-built houses and the institution was closed.<br />
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| closed = 1874<br />
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==History==<br />
On 27 October 1876 it was proclaimed that the Cooma Gaol building was to be closed as a prison, and used instead as a temporary lunatic asylum. After alterations and additions to render the building more suitable, 60 patients were transferred from the overcrowded wards of Gladesville Hospital in May 1877. The patients chosen for transfer were male, young, in reasonable physical health, with "demonstrative" forms of insanity, and included all those with relatives in the Monaro district. During the first year an improvement in the physical and mental health of the patients was noted. The Hospital also admitted patients from the Monaro district, receiving 4 new admissions in 1877 , under the provisions of the Lunacy Act, 1843 and it's amendments.<br />
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In November and December 1884 all patients were transferred to Callan Park Hospital, where building of new wards was in progress. The prison character of the building at Cooma, as well as the high rate of maintenance owing to the prices of provisions and stores, and the very isolated position of the establishment were considered drawbacks to it's continuance. On 31 December 1884, with no patients remaining, the Temporary Hospital for the Insane at Cooma was closed by the authority of the Colonial Secretary.<br />
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[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Westminster_Psychopathic_Hospital&diff=42133Westminster Psychopathic Hospital2021-10-22T13:10:10Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Westminster Psychopathic Hospital | image = OntWestminster Hospital.png | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = | constructi..."</p>
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| alt = <br />
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| established = <br />
| construction_began = 1918<br />
| construction_ended = <br />
| opened = 1920<br />
| closed = <br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Demolished Institution|Demolished]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = London, ON<br />
| architecture_style = <br />
| peak_patient_population = <br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Westminster Hospital<br />
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== History ==<br />
Construction of Westminster Psychopathic Hospital began in the fall of 1918 and it was completed and opened for patients May 1, 1920. As a military hospital, it was used primarily to treat and rehabilitate veterans with psychological injuries and shell shock suffered during World War I. Soon the need for medical and surgical treatment for veterans was recognized and, by a policy change in 1929, such wards were established and it was renamed Westminster Hospital. The hospital expanded during World War II to treat the injured and sick from nearby training camps. Following World War II the focus returned to long-term and acute care for veterans with disabilities. Westminster Hospital merged with Victoria Hospital in 1977 and became known as Victoria Hospital - Westminster Campus. In 1980 Parkwood Hospital assumed responsibility for the care of veterans.<br />
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* [[Adult Occupational Centre]]<br />
* [[Bluewater Centre]]<br />
* [[Brockville Asylum for the Insane]]<br />
* [[Cobourg Asylum]]<br />
* [[Durham Centre]]<br />
* [[Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Kingston Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[London Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Midwestern Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Mimico Asylum]]<br />
* [[Muskoka Centre]]<br />
* [[Orillia Asylum]]<br />
* [[Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre]]<br />
* [[Pine Ridge Centre]]<br />
* [[Prince Edward Heights]]<br />
* [[Queen Street Mental Health Centre]]<br />
* [[Rideau Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre]]<br />
* [[Southwestern Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[St. Lawrence Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[St. Thomas Psychiatric Centre]]<br />
* [[Nipissing Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[North Bay Psychiatric Centre]]<br />
* [[Northwestern Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Toronto Reception Hospital for the Insane]]<br />
* [[Westminster Psychopathic Hospital]] <br />
* [[Whitby Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Woodstock Hospital for Epileptics]]<br />
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==Private Institutions==<br />
* [[Braeside Lodge Sanitarium]]<br />
* [[Homewood Sanitarium]]<br />
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==Sanatoriums==<br />
* [[Calydor Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[King Edward Hospital in Ontario]]<br />
* [[Mountain Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Queen Alexandra Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Queen Mary Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Queen Mary Hospital for Children]]<br />
* [[Royal Ottawa Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptives]]<br />
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[[Category:Canada]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Queen_Alexandra_Sanatorium&diff=42130Queen Alexandra Sanatorium2021-10-22T12:53:29Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Queen Alexandra Sanatorium | image = OntQueen Alexandra Sanatorium.png | image_size = 250px | alt = | established = | construction_began = |..."</p>
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| alt = <br />
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| construction_began = <br />
| opened = 1910<br />
| closed = 1972<br />
| demolished = <br />
| current_status = [[Preserved Institution|Preserved]] (Partially)<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) = <br />
| location = London, ON<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
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*Beck Memorial Sanatorium<br />
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==History==<br />
The Queen Alexandra Sanatorium, a facility for the treatment of people suffering from tuberculosis, opened its doors on April 5, 1910. In April, 1949 it was renamed The Beck Memorial Sanatorium. It closed September 6, 1972. It was built on a high bluff overlooking the Thames River, in an area that was, at that time, outside the city of London. This site is now within the city at 600 Sanatorium Road and is occupied by CPRI (Child and Parent Resource Institute, formerly Children's Psychiatric Research Institute).<br />
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<div>==State Hospitals==<br />
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* [[Adult Occupational Centre]]<br />
* [[Bluewater Centre]]<br />
* [[Brockville Asylum for the Insane]]<br />
* [[Cobourg Asylum]]<br />
* [[Durham Centre]]<br />
* [[Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Kingston Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[London Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Midwestern Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Mimico Asylum]]<br />
* [[Muskoka Centre]]<br />
* [[Orillia Asylum]]<br />
* [[Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre]]<br />
* [[Pine Ridge Centre]]<br />
* [[Prince Edward Heights]]<br />
* [[Queen Street Mental Health Centre]]<br />
* [[Rideau Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre]]<br />
* [[Southwestern Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[St. Lawrence Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[St. Thomas Psychiatric Centre]]<br />
* [[Nipissing Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[North Bay Psychiatric Centre]]<br />
* [[Northwestern Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Toronto Reception Hospital for the Insane]]<br />
* [[Whitby Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Woodstock Hospital for Epileptics]]<br />
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==Private Institutions==<br />
* [[Braeside Lodge Sanitarium]]<br />
* [[Homewood Sanitarium]]<br />
* [[Westminster Psychopathic Hospital]] <br />
<br />
==Sanatoriums==<br />
* [[Calydor Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[King Edward Hospital in Ontario]]<br />
* [[Mountain Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Queen Alexandra Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Queen Mary Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Queen Mary Hospital for Children]]<br />
* [[Royal Ottawa Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptives]]<br />
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[[Category:Canada]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Bluewater_Centre&diff=42126Bluewater Centre2021-10-21T14:54:29Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Bluewater Centre | image = | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = | construction_began = | construction_ended = | opened..."</p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Bluewater Centre<br />
| image = <br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1961<br />
| closed = 1983/2012<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = Goderich, ONT<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Bluewater Centre for the Developmentally Handicapped<br />
*Bluewater Youth Centre<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
Originally built in 1961, The Ontario Hospital was a mental health facility. Fifteen years later it was renamed to Bluewater Centre for the Developmentally Handicapped & operated as such until 1983. Two years later the facility was given a face lift at a cost of $10 million to accommodate young offenders. The Facility reopened in 1985 as Bluewater Youth Detention Centre. In 1996, just one day into a public service strike against the Ontario government, a riot, then a fire broke out at the prison. The facility, located near Goderich could accommodate hundreds of youths however when it closed there was it was at a mere 26% capacity. In 2015 Bluewater closed putting nearly 200 people out of work.<br />
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Central Huron signed an agreement to buy the former Bluewater Youth Detention Centre from Infrastructure Ontario in 2021. Central Huron has plans to remediate the site to “pristine condition,” and then lease it back to prospective developers. Ideas floated in the past for the sprawling property include manufacturing, housing and even a shoreline resort.<br />
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[[Category:Ontario]]<br />
[[Category:Closed Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Ontario&diff=42125Ontario2021-10-21T14:45:34Z<p>Squad546: /* State Hospitals */</p>
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<div>==State Hospitals==<br />
<br />
* [[Adult Occupational Centre]]<br />
* [[Bluewater Centre]]<br />
* [[Brockville Asylum for the Insane]]<br />
* [[Cobourg Asylum]]<br />
* [[Durham Centre]]<br />
* [[Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Kingston Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[London Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Midwestern Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Mimico Asylum]]<br />
* [[Muskoka Centre]]<br />
* [[Orillia Asylum]]<br />
* [[Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre]]<br />
* [[Pine Ridge Centre]]<br />
* [[Prince Edward Heights]]<br />
* [[Queen Street Mental Health Centre]]<br />
* [[Rideau Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre]]<br />
* [[Southwestern Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[St. Lawrence Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[St. Thomas Psychiatric Centre]]<br />
* [[Nipissing Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Northwestern Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Toronto Reception Hospital for the Insane]]<br />
* [[Whitby Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Woodstock Hospital for Epileptics]]<br />
<br />
==Private Institutions==<br />
* [[Braeside Lodge Sanitarium]]<br />
* [[Homewood Sanitarium]]<br />
* [[Westminster Psychopathic Hospital]] <br />
<br />
==Sanatoriums==<br />
* [[Calydor Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[King Edward Hospital in Ontario]]<br />
* [[Mountain Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Queen Alexandra Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Queen Mary Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Queen Mary Hospital for Children]]<br />
* [[Royal Ottawa Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptives]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Canada]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Ontario&diff=42124Ontario2021-10-21T14:45:22Z<p>Squad546: /* State Hospitals */</p>
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<div>==State Hospitals==<br />
<br />
* [[Adult Occupational Centre]]<br />
* [[Bluewater Centere]]<br />
* [[Brockville Asylum for the Insane]]<br />
* [[Cobourg Asylum]]<br />
* [[Durham Centre]]<br />
* [[Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Kingston Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[London Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Midwestern Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Mimico Asylum]]<br />
* [[Muskoka Centre]]<br />
* [[Orillia Asylum]]<br />
* [[Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre]]<br />
* [[Pine Ridge Centre]]<br />
* [[Prince Edward Heights]]<br />
* [[Queen Street Mental Health Centre]]<br />
* [[Rideau Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre]]<br />
* [[Southwestern Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[St. Lawrence Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[St. Thomas Psychiatric Centre]]<br />
* [[Nipissing Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Northwestern Regional Centre]]<br />
* [[Toronto Reception Hospital for the Insane]]<br />
* [[Whitby Psychiatric Hospital]]<br />
* [[Woodstock Hospital for Epileptics]]<br />
<br />
==Private Institutions==<br />
* [[Braeside Lodge Sanitarium]]<br />
* [[Homewood Sanitarium]]<br />
* [[Westminster Psychopathic Hospital]] <br />
<br />
==Sanatoriums==<br />
* [[Calydor Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[King Edward Hospital in Ontario]]<br />
* [[Mountain Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Queen Alexandra Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Queen Mary Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Queen Mary Hospital for Children]]<br />
* [[Royal Ottawa Sanatorium]]<br />
* [[Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptives]]<br />
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[[Category:Canada]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Provincial_Auxiliary_Mental_Hospital,_Raymond&diff=42123Provincial Auxiliary Mental Hospital, Raymond2021-10-21T13:38:31Z<p>Squad546: </p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Provincial Auxiliary Mental Hospital, Raymond<br />
| image = raymond.png<br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1939<br />
| closed = 2016<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]]<br />
| building_style = [[Single Building Institutions|Single Building]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = Raymond, AB<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*Provincial Auxiliary Mental Hospital 1939-1965 <br />
*Alberta Hospital, Raymond 1965-1974 <br />
*Raymond Home 1974-1988 <br />
*Raymond Care Centre 1988-2016<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
In 1920 a Provincial Agricultural College was built in Raymond and functioned as such until 1931. In the late 1930s the province came up with a plan for their empty building. In the late 1930s the building was converted into the Provincial Auxiliary Mental Hospital (commonly known as the Raymond Mental Hospital). The building served as such from 1939 to 1965. <br />
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The building was converted into the Provincial Auxiliary Mental Hospital in 1939 to relieve “the overcrowding in the female chronic wards of the Provincial Mental Hospital. This institution was to provide care for a quiet type of chronic patient.” (1939 Provincial Report) In February 1939, 106 patients were brought to the hospital – 96 from Ponoka (the Hospital for the Insane, later renamed Provincial Mental Hospital, opened in Ponoka in 1911) and 10 from the [[Claresholm Provincial Auxiliary Mental Hospital]]. There were 10 other transfers that year. Throughout that year 9 patients left the facility (6 were discharged, 2 sent back to Ponoka because they were ill and one died from coronary thrombosis).<br />
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An Occupational Therapy program was started at the hospital that year and a library was gradually being established. The provincial report for 1939 noted that residents of the hospital attended “matinees at the local theatre …twice a month. These have been greatly enjoyed by the patients.<br />
A Sports Day and several wiener roasts and picnics were also enjoyed by both patients and staff during the course of the year.”<br />
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The 1939 provincial report concluded:<br />
“During the course of the past year this hospital was established and operated capably and efficiently. There were some difficulties, early, due to lack of equipment. The staff have been most efficient.<br />
It is to be hoped that a feeling of sympathetic understanding and goodwill will develop between the hospital and residents of the town and surrounding district.”<br />
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The 1956 Department of Public Health Provincial Report noted that as of 1 January 1956 134 patients resided in the Raymond facility. By this point Occupational Therapy had grown: “Patients are occupied in the laundry, sewing room, kitchen, nurses’ home and on the wards. A few patients help to pick vegetables in the garden, and one patient has the responsibility of gathering the eggs. There is a full-time attendance by other patients in the occupational parlor, where all kinds of needle-work, knitting, painting, rag rug-making, etc. is done. Tea is served there each afternoon, and there is a radio and canary for added interest.”<br />
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In the 1960s the treatment of persons with mental illness started to change. Deinstitutionalization started and psychiatric wards started in several general hospitals. We’ll leave our story of how mental health was treated here in the 1960s. From 1965 to 1974 the building changed its name and was known as the Alberta Hospital, Raymond. It was called the Raymond Home from 1974 to 1988 and in 1988 was renamed the Raymond Care Centre. Under these other names the building served a variety of medical needs including long-term care. <br />
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[[Category:Alberta]]<br />
[[Category:Closed Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Single Building Institutions]]</div>Squad546https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Glendale_Lodge&diff=42122Glendale Lodge2021-10-21T13:12:11Z<p>Squad546: Created page with "{{infobox institution | name = Glendale Lodge | image = | image_size = 250px | alt = | caption = | established = | construction_began = | construction_ended = | opened =..."</p>
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<div>{{infobox institution<br />
| name = Glendale Lodge<br />
| image = <br />
| image_size = 250px<br />
| alt = <br />
| caption = <br />
| established = <br />
| construction_began = <br />
| construction_ended =<br />
| opened = 1976<br />
| closed = 1996<br />
| demolished =<br />
| current_status = [[Closed Institution|Closed]]<br />
| building_style = [[Cottage Planned Institutions|Cottage Plan]]<br />
| architect(s) =<br />
| location = Victoria, BC<br />
| architecture_style =<br />
| peak_patient_population =<br />
| alternate_names =<br><br />
*<br />
}}<br />
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==History==<br />
Glendale Lodge was a home for adults with severe disabilities, opened in 1976. The institution was closed in 1996, and became the Vancouver Island Technology Park. It was one of the three major institutions for mental disability in British Columbia.<br />
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[[Category:British Columbia]]<br />
[[Category:Closed Institution]]<br />
[[Category:Cottage Plan]]</div>Squad546