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The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
Sunbury Lunatic Asylum was a 19th-century mental health facility known as a lunatic asylum, located in Sunbury, Victoria, Australia, first opened in October 1879. Prior to being opened as an asylum, Sunbury was controlled by the Department of Industrial and Reformatory Schools (VA 1466).
Aradale Mental Hospital was an Australian psychiatric hospital, located in Ararat, a rural city in south-west Victoria, Australia.Originally known as Ararat Lunatic Asylum, Aradale and its two sister asylums at Kew and Beechworth were commissioned to accommodate the growing number of 'lunatics' in the colony of Victoria.
Yarra Bend Asylum was the first permanent institution established in Victoria that was devoted to the treatment of the mentally ill. It opened in 1848 as a ward of the Asylum at Tarban Creek in New South Wales. It was not officially called Yarra Bend Asylum until July 1851 when the Port Phillip District separated from the Colony of New South ...
The 300-acre (120-hectare) estate on which the asylum was built was purchased by the West Riding Justices for £18,000 in 1885. [3] The hospital was designed on the broad arrow plan by architect J. Vickers Edwards [4] and the large gothic complex of stone buildings was formally opened as the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum on 8 October 1888. [3]
The asylum complex is an example of the E-plan lunatic asylums based on the model 1850s asylum in Colney Hatch, England, [21] which itself was based on the 1830 design of Hanwell Asylum in London. Kew was also considered a barracks style asylum due to its perceived resemblance to stockades or gaols. [ 22 ]
The Joint Counties' Lunatic Asylum, "Hereford Journal Almanac", 1850. The hospital was designed by Thomas Fulljames using a corridor plan layout. [2] It was built in the Gothic style using local old red sandstone with Bath stone dressings and opened as the Joint Counties' Lunatic Asylum in December 1851. [2]
A site was identified within the Brentwood Hall Estate for the construction of an asylum. [1] The asylum was designed by Kendall & Pope in the High Victorian Gothic style to a corridor plan layout. [1] The foundation stone was laid on in October 1851 and the hospital was officially opened as the Essex County Lunatic Asylum in September 1853. [2]