This photograph was taken to promote the Miss Tasmania Quest which helped to fund Rosebank Cottage.
This is a picture of a painting by Mollie Tomlin OAM, a well known artist of Glenorchy buildings. The painting is held by Glenorchy City Council. The children at Rosebank Cottage lived in an extension attached to the house. The Spastics Association, later Cerebral Palsy Tasmania used the house for administration and clinics.
The isolation cells are on either side of the corridor. The nurses’ station was to the left at the end of the corridor. It overlooked the dayroom.
The nurses’ station was higher than the dayroom so that nursing staff could look down on it. This established their authority.
The heavy door which is lying on its side against the wall originally belonged to the cell. The windows had a shutter that could be closed at night. Many of the cells at Lachlan Park had the light switch outside the room so that residents had no control over it.
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