• Archival Collection

Records of Glenside Hospital, later Glenside Campus Mental Health Service, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service

To access these records

For access to South Australian mental health hospital records, please contact the Records Manager at Glenside Health Services:

Address: PO Box 17, Fullarton SA 5063 or 2 Karrayarta Drive, Glenside SA 5065

Phone: 7087 1000

Email: healthGlensideinformationManagement@sa.gov.au

Website: https://www.calhn.sa.gov.au/contact-us/freedom-of-information

Reference Number

Quote this number to access your records: State Records of South Australia Agency ID GA1980

Records Location

Details

State Records of South Australia hold a collection of records created by the Glenside Hospital, later called the Glenside Campus Mental Health Service, that contain details about people admitted to the hospital and the treatments they received. Some of the record books used by the Glenside Hospital were also used by the earlier Colonial Lunatic Asylum, Adelaide Asylum, and Parkside Asylum/Mental Hospital. A full list of records from the Glenside Hospital, including links to more details about these records, can by found under the ‘Inventory of Series’ tab at the bottom of the State Records of South Australia catalogue entry linked on this page.

Access Conditions

Access to records about the Glenside Hospital is restricted for up to 100 years to protect personal privacy. People in these records have a right to access information about themselves. For access to restricted records please contact the Glenside Health Services Records Manager.

Records

The records of the Glenside Hospital include:

  • Admission books and papers
  • Registers of patients
  • Discharge and trial-leave papers
  • Registers of movements and transfers of patients
  • patient case books and medical files (which sometimes include photographs of patients)
  • Patient property books
  • Records about patient deaths and post-mortems
  • Visitor’s books
  • Daily journals from staff about occurrences on hospital wards
  • Records about clothing and other items issued to patients
  • Copies of the patient and staff newsletter
  • A video taken in and around H ward of Glenside (at that time the geriatric ward), showing staff and patients
  • Reports about the facilities at Glenside
  • Other administrative records and correspondence files that sometimes mention patients

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