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…
This is an image of some of the women’s wards at the Ballarat Hospital for the Insane, also known as the Ballarat Mental Hospital. It shows two buildings in Federation Queen Anne style, with decorated roofs and wide front verandahs. Two women dressed in white, possibly nurses, can be seen standing in front of one…
Ballarat Mental Hospital was opened by the Victorian Government at Ballarat in 1893. It was located on a site that had previously been the Ballarat Industrial School, an earlier iteration of the Ballarat Asylum from 1877 to 1879, and the Ballarat Boys’ Reformatory. It was initially known as the Ballarat Asylum, then from 1905 to…
These records were created by Royal Park Mental Hospital and Royal Park Receiving House and contain information about patients, staff, and administrative matters at the hospital. The collection is held by the Public Record Office of Victoria. The records contain personal details of people admitted to Royal Park Mental Hospital and Receiving House, including children…
The Protestant Federation Children’s Home (PFCH) records is a collection of records created by the Protestant Federation Children’s Home. The records include: Basic admission information “Roll Call” books which kept admission and discharge information from 1964-1980 Minutes of the Protestant Federation Children’s Home Board of Management 1975-1982 which include admission and discharge information. These records…
This is a photograph of the Sunbury Asylum, also known as the Sunbury Mental Hospital. It shows a row of ornate multi-story brick buildings with steep pitched roofs. The buildings visible are (from left to right) the administration building and main entrance to the asylum, the female hospital building, and the male admission and special…
Royal Park Receiving House was opened by the Victorian Government in 1907 at Royal Park. It was a facility for the short term diagnosis and treatment of people with mental illness or intellectual disability. Patients requiring more extensive treatment were transferred from the Receiving House to other mental health hospitals in Victoria. In 1909 the…
This is a photograph of the administration block at the Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, also known as the Royal Park Mental Hospital. It shows are large, plain, rectangular brick building with a shallow porch jutting out over the central entrance. Older more decorative buildings can be seen on either side of the adminsitration block. Two…
This is an image of one of the buildings of the former Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, also known as the Royal Park Mental Hospital. It shows a red brick Federation style building with red tiles, front verandahs, and yellow details. The front entrance is in the centre of the building and has an ornate face…
These records were created by Sunbury Mental Hospital and contain information about patients, staff, and administrative matters at the hospital. The collection is held by the Public Record Office of Victoria. The records contain personal details of people admitted to Sunbury Mental Hospital, including children and young people. Records about patients include admission and discharge…
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