Parkside Lunatic Asylum
| Glenside Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Geography | |
| Location | Fullarton Road, Glenside, SA, Australia |
| Organisation | |
| Hospital type | Mental health |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No |
| History | |
| Founded | 1870 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Australia |
Glenside Health Services is a psychiatric hospital in Glenside, South Australia.
It has previously been known as Parkside Lunatic Asylum, Parkside Mental Hospital and Glenside Hospital.
The Public Colonial Lunatic Asylum of South Australia was founded at the site in 1846 as the state's first purpose-run asylum to house residents deemed mentally ill. It operated until 1852 and the site was not used for such purposes for eighteen years.
It opened as Parkside Lunatic Asylum in 1870. It renamed to Parkside Mental Hospital in 1913, and then to Glenside Hospital in 1967.
The hospital peaked at 2000 beds in 1950, but in 2016 had only 119. 2.14 hectares of the original site was sold to Beach Energy 2014.
Coordinates: 34°56′35″S 138°37′30″E / 34.943°S 138.625°E
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