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In the 1830s, construction of a purpose-built asylum began on the banks of the Parramatta River, in the area now known as Gladesville. The original sandstone complex, known initially as Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum, was designed by the Colonial Architect, Mortimer Lewis, between 1836 and 1838. [3]
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 ...
Yarra Bend Asylum: Demolished: 1848: 1925: 1000+ Fairfield, Melbourne: 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 ...
A major milestone in the development of the suburb was the establishment of the Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum in 1838, [7] on the banks of the Parramatta River. It was the first purpose-built mental asylum in New South Wales. Much of the architecture was designed by Colonial Architect Mortimer Lewis and built between 1836 and 1838.
Frederick Norton Manning (25 February 1839 – 18 June 1903), [1] was a medical practitioner, military surgeon, Inspector General of the Insane for the Colony of New South Wales, and was an Australian Lunatic Asylum Superintendent. He was a leading figure in the establishment of a number of lunatic asylums in the colonies of New South Wales and ...
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Green was an inmate of the Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum from May 1855 to early-February 1856. On 5 February 1856 he was transferred to the Parramatta Lunatic Asylum. [103] [105] An account of a ministerial visit to the Parramatta Lunatic Asylum in early August 1866 included details of an encounter with Green.
On 13 September 1817, the New South Wales government established its first "Lunatic Asylum for Imbeciles and Idiots" at this site. [32] [33] Newcastle was the fourth main government-run asylum to be opened in New South Wales, the others located at Tarban Creek, Parramatta, the first being at Castle Hill, which later become a gaol. [34]