Greenplace (1914 - 1979)

Green Place on the Swan River, Mosman Park, c. 1920, courtesy of Community History Images Collection, The Grove Library.
Details

From

1914

To

1979

Categories

Disability Institution, Government-run and Home

Alternative Names

Green Place (also known as)
Greenplace Hospital (also known as)
Greenplace Hostel (also known as, 1946 - 1979)

Greenplace was a government-run facility, established in Mosman Park in 1914 as an annexe of the Claremont Hospital for the Insane. It admitted female psychiatric patients, possibly including adolescents with intellectual disabilities. From 1946 until it closed in 1979, Greenplace was a hostel for female psychiatric patients.

Greenplace was established in 1914 as an annexe of the Claremont Hospital for the Insane. It is possible that adolescent girls and young women were admitted to Greenplace.

Greenplace was described in the 'Report and Appendices of the Royal Commission in Lunacy' in 1922 as being in a private house that had once been used as a hospital for 'female inebriates'.

When Greenplace was visited by the Royal Commission, there were 15 'quiet and convalescent' female patients who did 'a great deal of the housework and mending of clothes'. The house and its location overlooking the Swan River were said to be 'charming' but the access for patients was 'somewhat difficult'. The house itself was 'comfortable' but needed 'certain repairs'. The Commissioners thought Greenplace should and could take more and a greater variety of patients if 'a better heating system and shower baths' were installed.

Events

1914 - 1979: Location - Green Place was established as an annexe of Claremont Hospital for the Insane in the former home of the Eliot family on land that is known as Green Place Reserve, off Wellington St, in Mosman Park. Location: Mosman Park

Run By

Lunacy Department (1903 - 1934)
Date: 1914 - 1934
Mental Health Services (1954 - 1984)
Date: 1954 - 1979
Mental Hospitals Department (1934 - 1954)
Date: 1934 - 1954

Related Archival Collections

Related Events

Royal Commission in Lunacy, State of Western Australia (1921 - 1922)

Related Organisations

Claremont Mental Hospital (1903 - 1972)
Greenplace was originally an annexe of the Claremont Hospital for the Insane.

Publications

Online Resources

Report and appendices of the Royal Commission in lunacy, Royal Commissions Held in Western Australia, Parliament of Western Australia, 21 September 1922, http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/intranet/libpages.nsf/WebFiles/Royal+Commissions+-+Report+and+appendices+of+the+royal+commission+in+lunacy/$FILE/Report+and+appendices+of+the+royal+commission+in+lunacy.pdf. Details

Photos

Title: Order for conveyance, 1918
Type: Document
Date: 22 August 1918 - 23 August 1918
Source: Collection of Historical Images, Mental Health Museum WA Inc
Note: ‘Order for conveyance 1918’ shows the type of form that would have been used at Greenplace to admit an involuntary patient.

Details

Title: Green Place on the Swan River, Mosman Park
Type: Image
Date: c. 1920
Source: Community History Images Collection, The Grove Library

Details

Sources used to compile this entry: Report and appendices of the Royal Commission in lunacy, Royal Commissions Held in Western Australia, Parliament of Western Australia, 21 September 1922, http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/intranet/libpages.nsf/WebFiles/Royal+Commissions+-+Report+and+appendices+of+the+royal+commission+in+lunacy/$FILE/Report+and+appendices+of+the+royal+commission+in+lunacy.pdf.

Prepared by: Debra Rosser

Created: 18 April 2013, Last modified: 12 November 2018

Greenplace (1914 - 1979)