This is a photograph showing buildings surrounding an internal courtyard at Gladesville Mental Hospital. It shows a courtyard with a large jacaranda tree and a stone fountain in the middle, surrounded on three sides by two-storey sandstone buildings. Along the side of each of the buildings is a small sheltered walkway with bench seats placed…
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Please contact Macquarie Hospital Health Information Service: Postal Address: PO Box 169, North Ryde, NSW, 1670 Phone: (02) 8877 4380 Email: NSLHD-MCQ-HIS@health.nsw.gov.au Website: https://www.nslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/AboutUs/Pages/HIS-contacts.aspx
Museums of History NSW (State Archives) holds a large collection of records relating to patients admitted to Gladesville Mental Hospital. Many of the records contain information about patients at Gladesville, and may include information about children and young people who were admitted to the hospital. The records include admission and discharge registers, case files, photographs,…
Gladesville Mental Hospital officially opened in 1838 under the name Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum. It was located in the Sydney suburb of Gladesville, and was run by the office of the Colonial Secretary before the Office of the Inspector General of the Insane was established in 1876 and took over it’s management. It had several…
For records about Callan Park Hospital and Rozelle Hospital, please contact Concord Repatriation General Hospital ROI Section, Health Information and Record Services: Postal address: Building 86, Hospital Rd, CONCORD NSW 2139 Phone: (02) 9767 5451 Email: SLHD-ConcordReleaseofInformation@health.nsw.gov.au Website: https://slhd.health.nsw.gov.au/patients-visitors/right-information
Museums of History NSW (State Archives) holds a large collection of records relating to patients admitted to Callan Park Mental Hospital. Many of the records contain information about patients at Callan Park, and may include information about children and young people who were admitted to the hospital. The records include admission and discharge registers, case…
This is a photograph of Callan Park Mental Hospital. It shows the front of a large sandstone building with a front porch supported by columns. The building is part of a complex of several sandstone buildings which are surrounded by gardens, and a driveway leading to the main entrance. This photograph is part of a…
This is a collection of Oral History recordings created by Roslyn Burge and Ann-Therese King and eight former patients and staff of Rozelle Hospital (formerly known as Callan Park Hospital) who lived or worked at the hospital between 1935 and 2008. The collection includes sixteen interview files, as well as accompanying transcripts and photographs. Interviewees…
Callan Park Hospital for the Insane was officially opened in 1878 at Lilyfield, Sydney. It was under the control of the New South Wales State Government office of the Inspector General of the Insane. It was opened to help relieve overcrowding at other mental health hospitals in New South Wales. In 1915 the name of…
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