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Institution Woogaroo Asylum (1865 - 1880)

From
1865
Ellerton Drve and Wolston Park Rd, Wacol, Queensland, Australia
To
1880
Population
General Psychiatric patients

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Numbers of Patients:

1878:
279 male patients
180 female patients

Chronology

1865 - 1880
Treatment Regime - Asylum/hospital Moral Therapy

Timeline

 1865 - 1880 Woogaroo Asylum
       1880 - 1898 Goodna Asylum
             1898 - c. 1940 Hospital for the Insane, Goodna
                   1940s - 1959 Goodna Mental Hospital
                         c. 1959 - 1963 Brisbane Mental Hospital

Government Publications

Reports

  • Joint Select Committee on the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum; Report, together with proceedings…minutes of evidence…and [appendices], Qld Parliamentary Papers 1869, vol. 1, 1869, 913-999 pp. Details
  • Royal Commission on the management of the Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum and the Lunatic Reception Houses of the Colony; Report, together with proceedings…minutes of evidence…and appendices, Qld Parliamentary Papers 1877, vol. 1, 1877, 1073-1253 pp. Details
  • Board of Inquiry [into] certain charges made against Doctor Patrick Smith, Surgeon-Superintendent of Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum by Mr Patrick O'Sullivan, M.L.A. and also into the general management of that institution; Report, together with proceedings… minutes of evidence… and appendices, Qld Parliamentary Papers 1880, vol. 1, 1880, 725-843 pp. Details