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Lake Alice Hospital was a rural psychiatric facilty in Rangitikei , New Zealand . Like many New Zealand Psychiatric Hospital s, Lake Alice was self-sufficient, with its own farm, workshop, bakery, laundry, and fire station. It also had swimming pools as well as Glasshouse s and vegetable gardens. The facility shut down in 1999. The buildings and 56- Hectare grounds were purchased in July, 2006 by an undisclosed buyer. 1 Former patients of the hospital's child and adolescent unit have made allegations of abuse there during the 1970s, including the use of Electroconvulsive Therapy and Paraldehyde injections as punishment. 2 The New Zealand government issued a formal apology in 2001, and has paid out a total of NZ$ 10.7 million in compensation to 183 former patients. 3 4 The former head of the unit gave up the practice of medicine in order to forestall a disciplinary hearing by the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria. REFERENCES |
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