Glenside Hospital (Adelaide)

Glenside Hospital
Geography
Location Fullarton Road, Glenside, SA, Australia
Organisation
Hospital type Mental health
Services
Emergency department No
History
Founded 1870
Links
Lists Hospitals in Australia

Glenside Health Services is a psychiatric hospital in Glenside, South Australia.[1]

It has previously been known as Parkside Lunatic Asylum, Parkside Mental Hospital and Glenside Hospital.[2]

History

The Public Colonial Lunatic Asylum of South Australia was founded at the site in 1846 as the state's first purpose-run asylum to house residents deemed mentally ill. It operated until 1852 and the site was not used for such purposes for eighteen years.[2]

It opened as Parkside Lunatic Asylum in 1870. It renamed to Parkside Mental Hospital in 1913, and then to Glenside Hospital in 1967.[2]

The hospital peaked at 2000 beds in 1950, but in 2016 had only 119.[3] 2.14 hectares of the original site was sold to Beach Energy 2014. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Glenside Health Services, Australian Government
  2. 1 2 3 Williamson, Brett (11 August 2011). "Inside Glenside: A history of mental health in Adelaide". ABC 891 Adelaide. Adelaide: Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 22 June 2016. The Parkside Lunatic Asylum opened in 1870 and soon became the home for Adelaide's chronic mental health patients.
  3. 1 2 The dark, disturbing past of Glenside’s Z Ward, the lunatic asylum, Adelaide Now, April 24, 2016

Coordinates: 34°56′35″S 138°37′30″E / 34.943°S 138.625°E / -34.943; 138.625


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