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| Beechworth Lunatic Asylum | |
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 Beechworth Asylum. Photo by John T Collins circa 1950 | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Beechworth, Victoria, Australia |
| Organisation | |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Beds | 1200 |
| Speciality | Psychiatric |
| History | |
| Opened | 1867 |
| Closed | 1995 |
| Links | |
| Other links | List of Australian psychiatric institutions |
Beechworth Asylum, also known in later years as the Beechworth Hospital for the Insane and Mayday Hills Mental Hospital, is a decommissioned hospital located in Beechworth, a town of Victoria, Australia. Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum was the second such Hospital to be built in Victoria, being one of the three largest. Mayday Hills Hospital closed in 1995, following 128 years of operation.
The asylum was surrounded by almost 106 hectares (260 acres) of farmland, making the hospital self-sufficient with its own piggery, orchards, kitchen gardens, fields, stables and barn. For recreation, the asylum included tennis courts, an oval and cricket pavilion, kiosk and a theatre.[1]
- ^ La Trobe at Beechworth [cartographic material] : heritage gardens and historic walking tour. Published: Beechworth: La Trobe at Beechworth, [2006?] Bibliographic details via Trove