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Institution Lachlan Park Hospital (1937 - 1968)

From
1937
Within Blair St, Burnett St, George St, Gray St, New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia
To
1968
Population
Criminally insane and General Psychiatric patients

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Numbers of Patients:

1945: 656
1953: 750
Source: Stoller, p. 177.

Timeline

 1829 - 1859 Lunatic Asylum, New Norfolk
       1859 - 1915 Hospital for the Insane, New Norfolk
             1915 - 1937 Mental Diseases Hospital, New Norfolk
                   1937 - 1968 Lachlan Park Hospital
                         1968 - 2000 Royal Derwent Hospital
                                - 2000 Willow Court Hospital 

Government Publications

Reports

  • Board of inquiry into the escape of patients from Lachlan Park Hospital., Tasmanian Gg. 226: 822 1966, 1966. 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

Digital resources

Title
Lachlan Park Hospital, New Norfolk, identification stamp
Type
Image
Source
Picture Australia. Item held by the State Library of Tasmania

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