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Glenside Hospital, later Glenside Campus Mental Health Service, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service (GA1980)

Calendar Date Range: 1967 - CT

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Description

On 6th July, 1967, Parkside Mental Hospital became Glenside Hospital.

Glenside Hospital received the records of Enfield Receiving House and Enfield Hospital upon the closure of Enfield in 1981, and the records of Northfield and Hillcrest Hospitals upon the closure of Hillcrest in 1994.

From 2004, Glenside Hospital is designated the Glenside Campus Mental Health Service of the Central Northern Adelaide Health Service.

Same agency as GRG34 - different archival control system.

Timeline:

Colonial Lunatic Asylum, Parkside 1846-1852 [GA2335]
Adelaide Lunatic Asylum 1852-1902 (50 male patients to Parkside in 1870) [GA2336]
Parkside Lunatic Asylum 1870-1913 [GA2606]
Parkside Mental Hospital 1913-1967[GA2606]
Glenside Hospital 1967-ct

For a more detailed history of Glenside Hospital and its predecessors, by H.T. Kay, a former Lay Superintendent, see GRG 34/71, or see the published copy in the Printed Reference Collection, Gepps Cross Research Centre.

Creation

Lunatics Act, No. 21 of 1864

Abolition

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Legislation

Lunatics Act, No. 21 of 1864