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Institution Sunbury Mental Hospital (1934 - 1962)

From
1934
Within The Heights and Circular Drive, Sunbury, Victoria, Australia
To
1962
Population
Female criminally insane and General Psychiatric patients

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Numbers of Patients:

1945:
1,109 male and female patients
1953:
1,240 male and female patients
1955:
713 female patients
526 male patients
187 patients boarded out at Castlemaine Old Men's Home.

Timeline

 1879 - 1905 Sunbury Lunatic Asylum
       1905 - 1934 Sunbury Hospital for the Insane
             1934 - 1962 Sunbury Mental Hospital
                   1962 - 1985 Sunbury Training Centre
                         1985 - c. 1993 Caloola Training Centre

Government Publications

Reports

  • Stoller, Allan, Report on Mental Health Facilites and Needs of Australia, K. W. Arscott, A.J. Arthur Government Printing Office, Canberra, 1955. pp. 66-7; 176. Details