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    Kew Lunatic Asylum is a decommissioned psychiatric hospital located between Princess Street and Yarra Boulevard in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia...
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    reserved for a mental asylum next to the river. By 1871 Kew Lunatic Asylum, now known as Willsmere Estate, was completed. The Kew Cottages for children...
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    recreation, the asylum included tennis courts, an oval and cricket pavilion, kiosk and a theatre. One of the distinctive features of both Kew Asylum and Beechworth...
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  • Victoria, Australia. Originally known as Ararat Lunatic Asylum, Aradale and its two sister asylums at Kew and Beechworth were commissioned to accommodate the...
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    Kew, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The Children's Cottages at Kew were first opened in 1887 as the "Idiot Ward" of Kew Asylum....
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  • hospitals. There are no institutions known to have existed. There are no asylums known to have existed. Glenside Hospital James Nash House Cascades Female...
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    Commons has media related to Yarra Bend Asylum. List of Australian psychiatric institutions Kew Lunatic Asylum Kew Cottages HM Prison Fairlea Parks Victoria...
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    Victorian-era lunatic asylums such as Yarra Bend Asylum, Beechworth Asylum, and Kew Lunatic Asylum in Victoria, and the Parkside Lunatic Asylum in South Australia...
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    The events at the Kew Asylum were described in The Argus on 3 September 1879: "A curious incident has occurred at Kew Lunatic Asylum. A lunatic was brought...
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  • Carlton Asylum, Kew Asylum and Yarra Bend Asylum. He continued to draw at Yarra Bend, and became known as 'the mad artist'. He died at Beechworth Asylum in...
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  • Length City Country Coordinates Notes m ft 1. Willsmere – Kew Asylum Residential 1871 950 3,120 Kew, Victoria Australia 2. Melbourne Convention and Exhibition...
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  • with the rapid rise of internment (asylums and forced detention). Other analyses suggest that the rise of asylums was primarily driven by industrialization...
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  • newspaper articles. She investigated undercover as an attendant at the Kew Asylum, a psychiatric hospital in Melbourne and also as an assistant nurse at...
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    committed to the Kew Asylum, a psychiatric hospital in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The facility opened in 1871 during an era when large asylums were in vogue...
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    Bridge, Kew Asylum Footbridge (Demolished) - 1864 - 1929 Fairfield/Kew Originally built by John Young to transport stone for the building of Kew Asylum. The...
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    alerted. Kew Cottages Kew Lunatic Asylum Lakeside Mental Hospital List of Australian psychiatric institutions Sunbury Industrial School Yarra Bend Asylum Sunbury...
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    Name Image Years as tallest Height Floors Notes Kew Asylum 1871–1876 30 m (98 ft) 5 Yorkshire Brewery Tower 1876–1888 34 m (112 ft) 8 Fink's Building 1888...
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    several prominent projects, Amess' firm was involved in the building of the Kew Asylum, Old Treasury Building and Customs House, and he personally funded the...
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  • the start of his career when he reluctantly became a medical officer at Kew Asylum in 1923, Ellery had a progressive and provocative approach to his career...
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    Kangaroo Ground War Memorial Park. In 1874 views could be seen of the Kew Asylum and ships coming up Hobson's Bay. The earliest settler in the area was...
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  • found and taken into custody peacefully the next day. J Ward Kew Asylum Beechworth Asylum List of Australian psychiatric institutions "Forensicare". Victorian...
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    Melbourne GPO (1861 - prior to extensions), the Royal Arcade (1870), Kew Asylum (1871), Peter Kerr designed Customs House in Williamstown (1873-1875)...
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    incurable alcoholic". Oft-repeated stories that Wills ended up in gaol or at Kew Asylum near the end of his life are not supported by substantive evidence. He...
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    refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London in June 2012. He was granted asylum by Ecuador in August 2012 on the grounds of political persecution and fears...
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    opening of the Kew Asylum in 1872, Collingwood ceased to function as an independent institution, and functioned merely as a ward of Kew. In June 1873 all...
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  • insane were transferred to a Hospital for the Insane such as Kew Asylum or Yarra Bend Asylum by order of the Superintendent of the Receiving House. Following...
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  • Parliament House (Brisbane) Parliament House, Brisbane; completed 1868 Kew Asylum, Kew; completed 1871 East Melbourne Synagogue. East Melbourne; completed...
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  • Terminus Hotel, Geelong (originally the Golden Point Hotel). Kew Lunatic Asylum 1864–1872 in Kew, with George W. Vivian Maldon courthouse Knowle House in...
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    and confined to Bendigo Hospital in 1890, before transferring to the Kew Asylum, where he died later that year. His body is buried in the Melbourne General...
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