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Mount View Lunatic Asylum

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Mount View Lunatic Asylum
File:Mount View Asylum Wellington.jpg
Mount View Asylum, c. 1906
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Geography
LocationWellington, New Zealand
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Organisation
TypeSpecialist
Services
Beds200
SpecialityPsychiatric hospital
History
Former namesMt. View Lunatic Asylum, Mount View Asylum
Opened1873
Closed1910
Links
ListsHospitals in New Zealand

The Mount View Lunatic Asylum (alternates: Mt. View Lunatic Asylum, Mount View 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.[1] Work began in 1872, and the hospital opened in May 1873.[2] It replaced Karori Lunatic Asylum, the first asylum in the country that was independent of a prison.[3] Mount View was designed to accommodate around 50 patients.[4] In May 1873, 27 patients moved from Karori to Mount View.[5][6] An expansion was required soon after the asylum opened to accommodate more patients, so in 1879 the two-storey wooden structure was enlarged with a block for 50 male patients, and another wing was built during 1880.[7][8] Around 1885 two additional wards were constructed.[9] By 1905 there were 250 patients but within the next five years, they were transferred to Porirua Lunatic Asylum and other asylums, before Mount View's closure in 1910.[10][4]

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