Description: This is an image of the men’s wards at Ballarat Hospital for the Insane, also known as Ballarat Mental Hospital. It shows a large two-storey brick building with arched windows and doorways on the ground floor. The face of the building is covered in climbing vines. This building is the same building that housed the Ballarat Girls’ Industrial School and the Ballarat Boys’ Reformatory. This image is part of a collage of photographs showing various aspects of the Ballarat Hospital for the Insane. Inset in the top left of this image is another photo showing a pergola within the grounds of the hospital, in front of some other hospital buildings
