Agency:
Hospital for the Insane, Hobart
Agency Number:
Start Date:
06 Aug 1890
End Date:
31 Dec 1893
Description:
When Port Arthur was closed the inmates of the asylum there were transferred to the Cascades. When it in turn was closed, the majority of them were transferred to New Norfolk. This hospital was proclaimed within the Campbell Street Gaol for those inmates at Cascades deemed to be criminally insane. In December 1893 the 27 surviving inmates were transferred to the Hospital at New Norfolk and the Hobart Hospital for the Insane was closed. The only record of this institution to survive is the Case Book transferred to it with the inmates from the Cascades (and subsequently transferred to New Norfolk). The inmates can be readily identified in the admission register (HSD247) of the Hospital for the Insane, New Norfolk.~
Legislation Creating:
Proclamation dated 6 Aug 1890 under the Insane Persons Hospitals Act 1858 (22 Vict No.23) published in the HTG 12 Aug 1890 at pp.1255-1256
Functions Performed:
Health care
Controlling Agencies:
Chief Secretary's Office/Department (TA153) | 01 Jan 1882 | 31 Dec 1946 |
Previous Agencies:
Hospital for the Insane, Cascades (TA336) | 01 Jan 1877 | 31 Dec 1890 |
Subsequent Agencies:
Royal Derwent Hospital (TA465) | 01 Jan 1827 | 30 Nov 2000 |
Series Created By Agency:
HSD54 Case Book. | 01 Jan 1877 | 31 Dec 1893 |