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Building Workers At Claremont Mental Hospital

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c. 1905

Overview

Group of workmen wearing dark trousers and generally waistcoats, light shirts with sleeves rolled, hats and boots. They are sitting on sand and building materials. All but one are leaning against doors or wall of new brick building and two are looking at large document.

Historical information

1903 First male patients admitted. Designed by JH Grainger, Public Works Department principal architect. 25 buildings in crescent shape with Montgomery Hall in centre of crescent. Site on Davies Road, 390 acres on Government reserve. Surrounded by farm land which was farmed, with patient involvement, to help feed inmates and those of other government institutions. Accommodation for 85 patients, workshops and stores completed. 1908 official opening. 1938-41 additions of admission and treatment block leased by Military during WWII. Divided in 1972 to become Graylands Hopsital and Swanbourne Hospital.

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Registration number

cwa-org-28--4-310-

Item type

Themes

Medicine & Health
Social History

Inscriptions and markings

Handwritten on rear [ Right - Mr Peter Shaw./Constructing offices for/ Insane Hospital.]

Year

Links to additional resources

Claremont Museum.

Copyright and Reference

Copyright and Reference

Copyright category

Life of creator +70 years

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Attribution requirements

Acknowledgements to be made to 'Claremont Museum 04.235'.

Copyright holder

Claremont Museum, Town of Claremont, Western Australia, 6010

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