THE PARRAMATTA FEMALE FACTORY AND INSANE ASYLUM
Subtitle: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE CUMBERLAND MENTAL HEALTH PRECINCT
Edition: THE PARRAMATTA FEMALE FACTORY AND INSANE ASYLUM
Series: no
Publisher: Parramatta City Council
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Sydney, Australia
Format: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 144
Copyright date: 2015
Other titles: no
Description: The Cumberland Precinct in North Parramatta is home to some of the most significant heritage sites in New South Wales. Most of it has been under continuous occupation by Europeans from the 1790s and the ‘female factory’, built in 1818, was one of the earliest government buildings on the site. The history of its transformation into an insane asylum, and then mental health precinct, provides us with insights into nearly 200 years of convict and medical history in Australia. This free e-book is a compendium of on-line articles written by Research and Collection Services Staff.
Notes: This is a free e-pub produced by Parramatta City COuncil
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Main Body; title: The First Female Factory, Prince Alfred Square, 1803 – 1821; title: The Second Female Factory: 1818-1848; title: The Parramatta Lunatic Asylum 1848-1878; title: Parramatta Hospital for the Insane, Destruction of ‘Female Factory’ buildings 1878 -1983; title: Asylum Gardens, North Parramatta; title: Room to recover: expansions to the 'Parramatta Mental Hospital'; title: 'Parramatta Lunatic Asylum' Male and Female Wards 1848-1956; title: Asylum Recreational Facilities; title: 'Betts' and 'Blaxland' House, 1830-1948; title: The Thwaites and Reed turret clock; title: North Parramatta, The First Land Grants; title: The First Government Water Mill, North Parramatta, 1792; title: Reverend Samuel Marsden’s Mill and Mill Dam Farm; title: The Fleet Street Quarry, Parramatta North; title: Parramatta Roman Catholic Orphan School Site; title: Mental Health Precinct: Timeline of European Settlement 1788-2013