Adelaide Lunatic Asylum (GA2336)

Overcrowding at the Colonial Lunatic Asylum at Parkside led to calls for a new asylum to be built.

In 1852 the Adelaide Asylum opened on North Terrace, east of the Colonial (Adelaide) Hospital.

With the opening of the Parkside Lunatic Asylum in 1870, fifty male patients were transferred from the Adelaide Asylum. In 1902, all of the Adelaide Asylum's patients were transferred to Parkside, with the building (now demolished) used by the Adelaide Hospital as the Consumptive Home.

For a photograph of the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum see GRG78/96 Item 4.

Same agency - different archival control system.

Sources:

Henry T. Kay, '1870 - 1907 Commemorating the Centenary of Glenside Hospital'.
South Australian Government Gazette, 4 March 1852, p.152.
Ibid., 26 June 1902, p.1277.