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Institution Watt Street Mental Hospital (1915 - 1969)

From
1915
Watt St, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
To
1969
Population
General Psychiatric patients and People with intellectual disability

Summary

Also known as Newcastle Mental Hospital.

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Numbers/Types of Patients:

1945:
303 male and female patients

1953:
321 male and female patients

Timeline

 1871 - 1914 Asylum for Idiots and Weak-minded Children, Newcastle
       1915 - 1969 Watt Street Mental Hospital
             1969 - 1989 Newcastle Psychiatric Centre
                   1989 - James Fletcher Hospital

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. 33-4; p. 176. Details

Digital resources

Title
Mental Hospital grounds, Watt Street, Newcastle
Type
Image
Source
Picture Australia. Item held by the Newcastle Region Library

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