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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic

Hospital or other health organisation

A shell shock clinic established during World War I in a stately house in Lilyfield, Broughton Hall became a psychiatric clinic on modern principles after the war.

Milestone
Merged into
Rozelle Hospital
1976
Position
Administrated by
Jones, Sydney Evan
1921 - 1948
Medical practitioner
McGeorge, John
1929 - 1936
Property
Occupied
Broughton Hall
1921 - 1974
Type
Hospital or other health organisation

Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic

by
Peter Reynolds
,
2008

Founded by Dr Sydney Evan Jones after World War I, the Broughton Hall psychiatric clinic was one of the first in Sydney to offer treatment to patients of modest means who were not certifiably insane. The grounds and gardens were part of the therapy to divert patients from neuroses to normality.

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