Dunwich Benevolent Asylum male division, 1942

Dunwich, QLD
Australia
27° 29' 55.2264" S, 153° 24' 11.8224" E
See map: Google Maps
1 January 1942
3 May 2011
3 May 2011

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Dunwich, QLD
Australia
27° 29' 55.2264" S, 153° 24' 11.8224" E
See map: Google Maps
3 May 2011

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

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Hospitals in the landscape

Dunwich Benevolent Asylum male division, 1942. More extensive than the female division, the male division of the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum on Stradbroke Island had a large number of buildings and a variety of facilities. According to this map, the asylum had separate wards for the mentally ill, blind and Asiatics. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Asylums in the landscape

For more than one hundred years Queensland’s main mental health facility was based on the banks of the Brisbane River near Goodna.

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