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Institution Millbrook Rise Psychopathic Hospital (1934 - 1968)

From
1934
Burnett St New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia
To
1968
Population
Psychiatric patients and Returned servicemen
Website
http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=A&id=TA00469

Summary

absorbed by Royal Derwent - physically across the road

Details

Numbers of Patients:

1945: 33 patients
1953: 27 patients

Timeline

 1934 - 1968 Millbrook Rise Psychopathic Hospital
       1968 - 2000 Royal Derwent Hospital
              - 2000 Willow Court Hospital 

Government Publications

Journal Articles

  • Ratcliffe, Eric, and Kirby, Ken, 'Psychiatry in Tasmania: from old cobwebs to new brooms', Australasian Psychiatry, vol. 9, no. 2, 2001, pp. 128-132. Details

Reports

  • Board of inquiry [into the] Royal Derwent Hospital and Millbrook Rise Hospital; Report. 1979/80., (not printed as a Parliamentary Paper copy available from Tasmanian Parliamentary Library)., 1979/1980. Details
  • Stoller, Allan, Report on Mental Health Facilites and Needs of Australia, K. W. Arscott, A.J. Arthur Government Printing Office, Canberra, 1955. p. 177. Details