Aradale Mental Hospital
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Aradale Mental Hospital was an Australian psychiatric hospital, located in Ararat, a rural city in south-west Victoria, Australia. Originally known as Ararat Lunatic Asylum, Aradale and its two sister asylums at Kew and Beechworth were commissioned to accommodate the growing number of 'lunatics' in the colony of Victoria. Construction began in 1864, and the guardhouses are listed as being built in 1866 though the list of patients extends as far back as the year before (1865). It was closed as an asylum in 1998 and in 2001 became a campus of the Melbourne Polytechnic (Previously known as NMIT) administered Melbourne Polytechnic's Ararat Training Centre.
Aradale Mental Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Ararat, Victoria, Australia |
Coordinates | 37.28°S 142.93°E / -37.28; 142.93 |
Organisation | |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Emergency department | Not Applicable |
Beds | 900+[1] |
Speciality | Psychiatric |
History | |
Opened | 1865 |
Closed | 1998 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in Australia |
Other links | List of Australian psychiatric institutions |