Corporate Body

Tasmanian Hospital for the Insane Department (1907 - 1915)

State of Tasmania

From
1907
To
1915
Functions
Hospitals or Clinics and Regulatory Body
Reference No
Tasmanian Archives Agency ID: TA875

Summary

Responsibility for public psychiatric care in Tasmania had originally sat within the Department of Public Health (1904 - 1956). In 1907 The Hospitals for the Insane Department (1907 - 1915) was founded as an independent body responsible for the Hospital for the Insane at New Norfolk. In 1915 the Hospitals for the Insane Department was replaced by the Mental Diseases Hospital Department (1915 - 1920).

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 1907 - 1915 Tasmanian Hospital for the Insane Department
       1886 - 1904 Tasmanian Central Board of Health
       1915 - 1920 Tasmanian Mental Diseases Hospital Department
             1904 - 1956 Tasmanian Department of Public Health
                   1907 - 1915 Tasmanian Hospital for the Insane Department
                         1915 - 1920 Tasmanian Mental Diseases Hospital Department

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