Other institutions with similar populations

• Children with intellectual disability
• Criminally insane
• General Psychiatric patients
• People with intellectual disability

Summary

Records kept at Public Records Office Victoria. Http:www.prov.vic.gov.au

Related entries

Timeline

 1848 - 1905 Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum
       1905 - 1925 Yarra Bend Hospital for the Insane

Archival resources

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• Embling, Thomas, 1814-1893. Diary and notes, 1852 Jan. 23-Jun. 26., 23 January 1852 - 26 June 1852, MS 11106, BOX 1619/1; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Government Publications

Books

• A Report into the management of the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, as detailed in the 9 days' trial of the action for libel, Bowie v. Wilson, 1862. Details
• Finlay, William, Metropolitan Asylum for the Insane : report on old foundations of / by Travelling Superintending Inspector, William Finlay, Government Printer, Melbourne , 1869. Details
• Victoria. Inspector of Asylums, Report of the Inspector of Asylums on the hospitals for the insane: for the year ..., Government Printer, Melbourne, 1870. Details
• Victoria. Inspector of Lunatic Asylums, Report of the Inspector of Lunatic Asylums on the hospitals for the insane, Government Printer, Melbourne, 1873-1905. Details

Reports

• Report from the Select Committee of the legislative Council on the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, together with the Proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence and appendix, Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1852/53, vol. 2, 1852/53. Details
• Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1855/56, 1855/56. Details
• Select Committee of the Legislative Council on the Subject of Penal Establishments, Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1856/57, 1856/57. Details
• Select Committee upon the Lunatic Asylum; Report, together with the proceedings, minutes of evidence, and appendices, Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1857/58, D 16, vol. 1, 1857/58. Details
• Select Committee upon the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum; Report together with the proceedings, Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1858/59, D 28, vol. 1, 1858/59. Details
• Select Committee upon the [Yarra Bend] Lunatic Asylum; Reports, Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1859/60, D 44 and D 54, vol. 2, 1859/60. Details
• Select Committee upon the [Yarra Bend] Lunatic Asylum; Progress Report, together with the minutes of evidence and appendices, Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1860/61, D 31, vol. 2, 1860/61. Details
• Select Committee on the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum; Reports, together with the proceedings…the minutes of evidence and appendices, Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1861/62, D 27, 31, 41 and 50, vol. 2, 1861/62. Details
• Committee appointed to enquire into the State of the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum; Progress report, Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1862/63, No 34, vol. 4, 1862/63. Details
• Board appointed to enquire into the conduct of Doctors Bowie and Callan respecting the death of Charles Jenkins at the Lunatic Asylum, Report, Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1862/63, no A9, vol. 1, 1862/63. Details
• Statistical Register of the Colony of Victoria for the Year 1874, Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1875/76, 1875/76. Details
• Statistical Register of the Colony of Victoria for the Year 1877, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1878, vol. 3, 1878. Details
• Royal Commission on Asylums for the Insane and the Inebriate Reports [with Minutes of Evidence and Appendices], Victorian Parliamentary Papers 1884, vol. 4, 1884. Details