Ipswich Special Hospital

• Ipswich Mental Hospital (1938 - 1964)
• Ipswich Special Hospital (1964 – 1968)
  • Challinor Centre (1968 - 1998)

Run by

• Health Department, State Government of Queensland (26 September 1963 - 3 April 2012)
  Date: 1964 - 1968

This page was written by Lee Butterworth, last updated 15 February 2023. Sources used to create this entry:

• McRobert, Elizabeth, Challinor Centre : the end of the line : a history of the institution also known as Sandy Gallop, 1997 View Publication Details
• University of Queensland, UQ Ipswich Campus Progression of an Institution, Ipswich Library Online Exhibition, No date View Publication Details

• Moon, Graham & Kearns, Robin, From asylum to college campus: memory and remembrance in transinstitutionalisation, Afterlives of the Psychiatric Asylum: recycling of concepts, sites and memories, 2015. View Publication Details

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Records

• Registers of Patients and Admission Books - Wolston Park / Ipswich Special Hospital / Challinor Centre, Ipswich (23 March 1861 - 18 March 1994)
• Register of Discharges, Removals and Deaths - Ipswich Special Hospital/Challinor Centre, Ipswich (24 July 1885 - 16 October 1998)