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Institution Hospital for the Insane, Goodna (1898 - c. 1940)

From
1898
Ellerton Drive and Wolston Park Drive, Wacol, Queensland, Australia
To
c. 1940
Population
General Psychiatric patients

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Numbers of Patients:

1901:
681 male patients
386 female patients


1909:
765 male patients
482 female patients


1932:
1044 male patients
557 female patients

Chronology

1898 - 1909
Treatment Regime - Asylum/hospital Moral therapy
1909 - 1937
Treatment Regime - Hosptial

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

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Government Publications

Reports

  • Royal Commission appointed to inquire into and report upon all matters connected with the management of the Hospital for the Insane, Goodna, and the treatment of patients therein, and the question whether the articles relating to the Institution appearing in certain issues of the Brisbane Daily Mail are well founded; Report, together with minutes of evidence…and appendices, Qld Parliamentary Papers 1915/16, vol. 3, 1915/16, 119-776 pp. Details

Digital resources

Title
New addition to the Goodna Hospital for the Insane, ca. 1913
Type
Image
Source
Picture Australia. Item is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.

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