Old Mental Hospital Morisset

Old mental hospital morisset. This is not a park. Morisset peninsula and morisset hospital morisset hospital is a specialist psychiatric hospital on the shores of lake macquarie. Ice demon by kevin macleod incompetech. They had been friendly and were living together in a cottage on the morisset hospital campus both mental health patients who had worked their way through the criminal health system and were close to being released into the community.

It was added to the new south wales state heritage register on 2 april. Morisset sprang up as a sawmill town clustered around the train station and the township was proclaimed on 3 december. The 1 1 km pines trail includes in an old aboriginal axe grinding groove. Morisset hospital is a heritage listed psychiatric hospital at morisset park road morisset city of lake macquarie new south wales australia it was designed by the new south wales government architect s office and built from 1906 to 1959 by the department of public works the property is owned by the department of health.

The morisset hospital historical society was formed with the aim of collecting and preserving the heritage of morisset hospital. The historic hospital lantern restoration was completed. Thomas dillan stone 27 sat quietly in the dock as the supreme court was told he stabbed 41 year old robert mitchell in the neck in february 2017 at morisset hospital south of newcastle. And it remained a mystery on tuesday why one of the forensic patients thomas dillan stone would.

Today the hospital is surrounded by one of the seven areas around the lake that are all part of the lake macquarie state conservation area. Historical notes 1993. Citation needed in 1908 a psychiatric hospital opened on a large estate along the lake shore. In june 1958 facilities for male criminally insane patients at parramatta mental hospital were closed with patients transferred to a new maximum security unit at morisset 6 by 1962 morisset hospital was the acute psychiatric admitting hospital for the northern part of the state with patients transferred from the admission centre at newcastle.

The wyee bay hospital for the criminally insane was built in 1933 on a parcel of land acquired specially for the purpose of providing a maximum security facility for prisoners judged insane and dangerous in a place where there was easy access to appropriate medical facilities staff. This video was from our investigation of the old morisset psych hospital very active night ive also put a bit of stuff from previous investigations there.