"It procures sleep in acute mania better than any other drug which I have tried," Dr Paterson wrote. Residents of the asylum were subjected to a wide range of treatments that were essentially thinly-veiled abuse: electroshock therapy, hydrotherapy, frontal lobotomies and medications that placed them into catatonic states. These facilities, meant to assist people with mental illness and disabilities, often saw their patients mistreated at the hands of staff who didn't fully understand their conditions, or didn't care to understand. One of the stories recounts a lazy nurse who discovered a dead patient in one of their cells and couldnt be bothered wheeling their body all the way to the morgue on the two wheeled cart. Copyright Stay at Home Mum 2023. These suicides varied from hangings to a patient stealing a knife and going on a stabbing spree resulting in them slitting their own throat. Bedlam was run by doctors in the Monro family for over 100 years, during the 18th and 19th centuries. Rapid Bay is one of South Australia's top destinations on the Fleurieu Peninsula, best known for its jetties, fishing, scuba diving, camping and beach caves. Those nearing the end of their lives, suffering from undiagnosed diseases, unmarried women with children and prostitutes were also toppled into the establishment. By 1975, the once-thriving colony was essentially a ghost town. Much of the time this asylum operated, mental health and modern medicine was still in its infancy and many inhumane experimental treatments were used. First constructed to house 200 patients, it eventually expanded to serve up to 1,500 residents at a time. Parkside Mental Asylum (Glenside Hospital) Heritage Walk Abandoned mental asylums, 'village of the dead' and Chernobyl the

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