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Adelaide city morgue was established in an open field behind the State Library well away from any other building, however in the ensuing thirty years the Destitute Asylum had expanded to such an extent that parts of the Asylum, notably the Lying-in wards, were uncomfortably close, calls were made for it to be replaced.
Australian immigration detention facilities comprise a number of different facilities throughout Australia, including the Australian territory of Christmas Island. [1] Such facilities also exist in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, namely the Nauru Regional Processing Centre and the Manus Regional Processing Centre.
It reopened as Parkside Lunatic Asylum in 1870, housing the chronically mentally ill as well as people nearing the end of their lives, those suffering from undiagnosed illnesses, unmarried women with children and prostitutes. [1] [2] The morgue for the asylum was a building in the Adelaide Botanic Garden. [4] [3] [5] [6]
A sign at the entrance of the former Baxter Detention Cent, taken in 2006. The entrance of the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, taken in April 2003, following closure of the Centre.
At one point, the slaughterhouses were exporting overseas and at the same time providing half of Adelaide's lamb requirements. In 1846 the Public Colonial Lunatic Asylum of South Australia was founded at the site of the present-day Glenside hospital. The site has been used almost-continuously since then as a public mental health facility ...
The site is located on Kintore Avenue between the State Library of South Australia, the South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide, in a complex of early colonial bluestone buildings set around a courtyard, including the city's former destitute asylum (from 1850 to 1918).
Bendigo Benevolent Asylum and Industrial School [6] Warrnambool Benevolent Asylum; South Australia. Adelaide Destitute Asylum; Home for Incurables; Queensland. Dunwich Benevolent Asylum [7] Tasmania. Launceston Benevolent Asylum [8] Several of the buildings of the Adelaide Destitute Asylum are now home to the SA Migration Museum, which opened ...
Ararat Asylum (Aradale Mental Hospital) Closed: 1865: 1993: 2000: Ararat: Collingwood Stockade (Carlton Lunatic Asylum) Demolished: 1866: 1872? Carlton North, Melbourne: Beechworth Asylum (Mayday Hills) Closed: 1867: 1995: 1200 [9] Beechworth: Kew Asylum (Willsmere Mental Hospital) Closed: 1871 [10] 1988: 884 (in 1903) [11] Kew, Melbourne ...