Dictionary of Sydney

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Darlinghurst Reception House

Psychiatric assessment hospital constructed to cater for the mentally ill who would normally have been placed in gaol. It was conducted in a building on the corner of Forbes and Burton streets directly behind Darlinghurst Gaol.

Milestone
Opened
1868
Closed
1961
Name
Alternate
Darlinghurst Admissions Centre
1958 - 1961
Type