Wolston Park Hospital Complex - Bostock, 2001, by Heritage Branch Staff, courtesy of Queensland Heritage Register, Department of Environment and Heritage Protection.
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The Goodna Hospital for the Insane, situated at Wacol, Queensland, was a State run facility. The Goodna Hospital for the Insane was previously known as the Goodna Asylum for the Insane.
Evidence shows that children who were wards of the state were placed in Queensland mental institutions however more research is needed to find out about children placed at the Goodna Hospital for the Insane.
1865 - c. 1880 Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum
c. 1880 - 1898 Goodna Asylum for the Insane
1898 - c. 1940 Goodna Hospital for the Insane
c. 1940 - 1963 Brisbane Mental Hospital
1963 - 1969 Brisbane Special Hospital
1969 - 2001 Wolston Park Hospital
2001 - The Park Centre for Mental Health
Sources used to compile this entry: Finnane, Mark, Wolston Park Hospital 1865-2001: A Retrospect, Queensland Review, vol. 15 (2), University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2008, 39-58 pp, http://www98.griffith.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/10072/22957/54722_1.pdf?sequence=1; Queensland Health, The road to recovery - a history of mental health services in Queensland 1859-2009, Queensland Government, 2013, https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0028/444583/qld-mh-history.pdf.
Prepared by: Lee Butterworth
Created: 1 May 2013, Last modified: 27 April 2018
Last updated: 7 August 2023
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