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Whau Lunatic Asylum (or: Lunatic Asylum at the Whau; later: Auckland Lunatic Asylum, Avondale Lunatic Asylum, Avondale Hospital, Auckland Mental Health Hospital, Oakley Hospital; Carrington Psychiatric Hospital; commonly Carrington/Oakley Hospital) was a psychiatric hospital on the Oakley Farm Estate in Point Chevalier, Auckland, New ...
Henry Schultze died on a bloody mattress at Mt View Lunatic Asylum in 1895. Stuff explores how his life, and countless others, were affected by incarceration in our mental health institutions,...
Mar 8, 2018 · Built in 1865, the facility - known over the years as the Lunatic Asylum at the Whau, Avondale Lunatic Asylum and Carrington Psychiatric Hospital - was one of New Zealand's largest mental...
May 2, 2023 · Learn how the Lunatics Act of 1868 regulated the treatment and management of the mentally ill in New Zealand, and how the Auckland Asylum at the Whau was built and operated. Explore the reports, schedules, and spaces that shaped the lives of the patients in the asylums.
Underwent several name changes - Auckland Lunatic Asylum, Avondale Lunatic Asylum, Whau Lunatic Asylum. Later known as the Oakley and Carrington hospitals.
May 2, 2023 · The asylum was modelled after the great lunatic asylums of Victorian England, an architecturally imposing statement upon the landscape; it was even designed in England by an English architect.
Description. Opened 1867 as Whau on the Oakley Estate at Point Chevalier. Known as the Auckland Mental Hospital from 1905. Then known as Oakley, then as Carrington. Notable medical men include Thomas Aickin (1869-79); John Cremonini (1886-89); Gary Hansell (1890-94); Robert Martin Beattie (appointed 1897).
