Browse Entries

Other institutions with similar populations

Institution Parramatta Mental Hospital (1915 - )

From
1915
11 Hainsworth St, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
Population
Female criminally insane and Free and criminally insane

Skip to

Details

Numbers and types of Patients:


1915:
802 (free) male
48 (criminal) male
434 (free) female
4 (criminal) female


1945:
1645 male and female patients

1955:
996 female patients
1046 male patients

Timeline

 1849 - 1868 Parramatta Lunatic Asylum
       1869 - 1914 Parramatta Hospital for the Insane
             1915 - Parramatta Mental Hospital
                    Parramatta Psychiatric Centre
                         1983 - Cumberland Hospital

Government Publications

Reports

  • Inspector-General of the Insane Annual Report for 1915, (printed 1916), Journal of the Legislative Assembly of NSW, Vol. 2, pp. 893-899., 1915. Details
  • Stoller, Allan, Report on Mental Health Facilites and Needs of Australia, K. W. Arscott, A.J. Arthur Government Printing Office, Canberra, 1955. pp. 26-7; 176. Details

Digital resources

Title
Parramatta Mental Hospital
Type
Image
Source
Picture Australia. Item held by the State Library of New South Wales

Details