• Karori Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital in Karori. Established in 1854, it was New Zealand's first asylum. The first patient was admitted in the...
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    what were the asylum grounds. Work began in 1872, and the hospital opened in May 1873. It replaced Karori Lunatic Asylum, the first asylum in the country...
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    Lunatic Asylum & Cherry Farm Hospital Karori Lunatic Asylum Kingseat Hospital Lake Alice Hospital Porirua Lunatic Asylum & Mount View Lunatic Asylum Seaview...
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  • Health Profile". health.govt.nz. Ministry of Health. "The Auckland Lunatic Asylum". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]. The...
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    also became a justice of the peace and served as inspector of the Karori Lunatic Asylum. From 1879, Bowden returned to the church and took up clergy positions...
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    establishment of the Porirua Lunatic Asylum on the hill south-west of Porirua village. Following the Mental Defectives Act of 1911, the Asylum became Porirua Mental...
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    John Campbell (architect) (category Burials at Karori Cemetery)
    design, were predominantly Queen Anne in style and included the Porirua Lunatic Asylum (1894) and the Dunedin Prison (1895–98) which was reminiscent of Norman...
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  • saved. Seacliff Lunatic Asylum fire, 1942 – on the evening of 8 December 1942, a fire broke out in Ward 5 at the Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, north of Dunedin...
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    Lunatic Asylum before dying on 2 October that same year. Ellison was buried in Ōtākou, Otago Heads, following the original plan of a burial at Karori...
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