Mount View Lunatic Asylum
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title:
Mount View Lunatic Asylum
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The Mount View Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located on 113 acres (46 ha) near the Basin Reserve in Wellington, New Zealand. Government House is now located on what were the asylum grounds. Work began in 1872, and the hospital opened in May 1873. It replaced Karori Lunatic Asylum, the first asylum in the country. Mount View was planned to accommodate 28 male and 28 female patients, but as 70 patients were transferred from Karori, overcrowding was a problem from the beginning. An expa
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Hospital in Wellington, New Zealand
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_View_Lunatic_Asylum
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2024-04-18T08:25:03Z
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