Sunnyside Hospital

Sunnyside Hospital
Sunnyside Hospital
	Sunnyside Asylum, Christchurch. Completed in 1891, this was one of Mountfort's last major works. Designed in a chateauesque Gothic, the large windows created the air of a country house rather than place of incarceration.
Geography
Location	Christchurch, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
Coordinates	43°33′03″S 172°35′34″E / 43.5509°S 172.5929°E
Services
Emergency department	No
History
Opened	1863
Closed	1999
Links
Lists	Hospitals in New Zealand

Sunnyside Hospital (1863–1999) was the first mental asylum to be built in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was initially known as Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum, and its first patients were 17 people who had previously been kept in the Lyttelton gaol.^[1] In 2007, Hilmorton Hospital is just one of the mental health services that are based on the old Sunnyside Hospital grounds.

^ Blake-Palmer, Geoffrey. 1966. 'Hospitals, Mental', In A. H. McLintock, ed., An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. (Accessed 19 August 2007)[1]

[1] Blake-Palmer, Geoffrey. 1966. 'Hospitals, Mental', In A. H. McLintock, ed., An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. (Accessed 19 August 2007)[1]

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