Parkside Lunatic Asylum, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 1876
By Remembering the Past Australia / March 26, 2022 / Australia / 0 Comments
Place:
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Date:
1876
Historical Information:
This image is part of the Colonial Office photographic collection held at The National Archives UK.
The Public Colonial Lunatic Asylum of South Australia was founded at the site in 1846 as the state’s first purpose-run asylum to house residents deemed mentally ill. It was run more like a farm than a hospital, and housed patients deemed too mentally unwell to be housed in the Adelaide Gaol. It operated until 1852 when the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum opened on the eastern side of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital (now Lot Fourteen), on land now part of the Adelaide Botanic Garden,[4] and the Glenside site was not used for such purposes for another 18 years.
It reopened as Parkside Lunatic Asylum in 1870, housing the chronically mentally ill as well as people nearing the end of their lives, those suffering from undiagnosed illnesses, unmarried women with children and prostitutes. [Wikipedia]
Description:
Showing the Parkside Lunatic Asylum, Adelaide, South Australia. Original photo published 1876.
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