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    145°00′38″E / 37.79082°S 145.010637°E / -37.79082; 145.010637 Yarra Bend Asylum was the first permanent institution established in Victoria that was...
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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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    of the area today. From 1848 until 1925 the park was home to Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, which took up most of the area of the park with buildings, vegetable...
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    treatment of inmates in asylums before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia where he set about reforming the Yarra Bend Asylum. Later on Thomas Embling...
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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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  • National Park Road (now Yarra Bend Road), Fairfield included the grounds and structures of the former Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum and Fairhaven Venereal...
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    Schools. Patients were also transferred from Yarra Bend Asylum (VA 2839). Its proclamation as an asylum was published in the Government Gazette on 31...
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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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    from other, earlier structures. The roof slates came from the former Yarra Bend Asylum. Bricks came from cable tram engine-house chimneys. The front porch...
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    Kane's Bridge (category Buildings and structures in the City of Yarra)
    the design of another bridge further upstream linking Kew to the Yarra Bend Asylum. The suspension of the bridge is made of undressed timber posts, and...
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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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  • bush fires destroyed everything around 1898. He was admitted to the Yarra Bend Asylum, with his wife and four children left without support. On 1 December...
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    Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital (category Buildings and structures in the City of Yarra)
    1904 to its closure in 1996. Perched high on the banks of the Yarra River at Yarra Bend in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fairfield, it developed an international...
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    The Yarra River is a river in southern Victoria, Australia that flows through the city of Melbourne. Over the river's 242-kilometre (150 mi) length there...
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    'Skipping Girl Vinegar' factory, location of the famous sign The first Yarra Bend Asylum During the late 1980s the business expanded to include its own rubbish...
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  • Thomas Embling Hospital (category Buildings and structures in the City of Yarra)
    Hospital and adjacent to the former HM Prison Fairlea and the former Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum. On 22 February 2006, then Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott...
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    Singapore (2) and Japan (2). Displays included two beer exhibits from Yarra Bend Asylum, three copper engraved maps of Victoria organised by Alexander John...
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  • Insolvent" in the local papers. In January 1871 he was admitted to the Yarra Bend Asylum and died, aged 53, in March that year from "disease of the brain and...
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    eventually lost the family's fortune and was institutionalized at Yarra Bend Asylum. The Saqui sisters, Gladys, Maie, and Hazel, began their careers on...
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  • house in Westgarthtown 1865 Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum (later known as the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum Infirmary), pillars and entry gates and ha-ha wall...
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  • Hospital Board.) 1848 – The Yarra Bend Asylum was opened so that those mentally ill could be moved out of gaol. This Asylum was later known as Melbourne...
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    Abbotsford Convent (category Buildings and structures in the City of Yarra)
    city suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The Convent is in a bend of the Yarra River west of Yarra Bend Park, with the Collingwood Children's Farm to its north...
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    Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden within the King's Domain, Sunbury Asylum, Yarra Bend Park, and the SEC company town of Yallourn He also was involved in...
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    Zealand hospital. 1848 – The Yarra Bend Asylum was opened so that the mentally-ill could be moved out of jail. This asylum was later known as Melbourne...
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  • Club of Victoria. He spent the final year of his life in the Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, suffering from dementia and paralysis, apparently without any...
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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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    1907.[A] By about 1907 Cecil Hartt was working as a clerk at the Yarra Bend Asylum, in the Melbourne suburb of Fairfield. In August 1907 a cartoon by...
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    include Box Hill, Carlton, Docklands, Southbank, South Melbourne, South Yarra and St Kilda Road. The Melbourne central business district, defined by a...
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  • Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-110-46824-3. Clark, Ian D.; Heydon, Toby (2004). A Bend in the Yarra: A History of the Merri Creek Protectorate Station and Merri Creek...
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    Melbourne chief", leading his men to victory against a side from South Yarra. Following a scratch match at the start of the 1859 football season, the...
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