Please contact the State Records Research Centre:
Postal Address: GPO Box 464, Adelaide SA 5001
Phone: 08 7322 7077
Email: staterecords@sa.gov.au
Quote this number to access your records: State Records of South Australia Agency ID GA2336
These records are held by State Records of South Australia (1919 - current).
State Records of South Australia hold a collection of records created by the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum that contain details about people admitted to the asylum. The records include admission books and papers, discharge and trial-leave papers, patient case books, patient property books, post-mortem books, visitor’s books, and various administrative papers that include details about patients transferred between the asylum and other institutions, and patients transferred to the asylum from Broken Hill. Some of the record books used by the Adelaide Asylum were also used by the earlier Colonial Lunatic Asylum, and some continued to be used by the Parkside and Glenside mental hospitals into the late 20th century. A full list of records from the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum, 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.
Records about the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum are open access, and can be viewed by any member of the public. To arrange access to these records please contact the State Records of South Australia.