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Institution Goodna Mental Hospital (1940s - 1959)

From
1940s
Ellerton Drive and Wolston Park Rd, Wacol, Queensland, Australia
To
1959
Population
General Psychiatric patients and People with intellectual disability

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Numbers of Patients:

1945:
1,910 male and female patients

1953:
2,421 male and female patients

1955:
1214 female patients
1189 male patients

Chronology

1938 - 1959
Treatment Regime - Mental Hygiene

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

  • Stoller, Allan, Report on Mental Health Facilites and Needs of Australia, K. W. Arscott, A.J. Arthur Government Printing Office, Canberra, 1955. pp. 97-9; 176. Details