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In 2007, Hilmorton Hospital is just one of the mental health services that are based on the old Sunnyside Hospital grounds.


ARCHITECTURE

last major works. Designed in a Chateauesque Gothic, the large widows created the air of a Country House rather than place of incarceration]]

Sunnyside Hospital was primarily designed by the New Zealand Victorian gothic architect, Benjamin Mountfort , with an administration building designed by John Campbell .


STAFF

Edward William Seagar was the first superintendent of Sunnyside Hospital.

In 1995, four years before the hospital's closure, nurses walked off the job because of dangerous working conditions.


FAMOUS PATIENTS


  • Janet Frame Writer. Frame described some of her experiences in Sunnyside Hospital in her autobiography '' An Angel At My Table '', and her novel ''Faces in the Water''.

    • R. said it would be a good idea for me to admit myself as a voluntary boarder to Sunnyside Mental Hospital where there was a new electric treatment, which, in her opinion, would help me. . . . I woke toothless and was admitted to Sunnyside Hospital and I was given the new electric treatment, and suddenly my life was thrown out of focus. I could not remember. I was terrified.Frame, Janet. ''Autobiography'' p. 213. Quoted in Henke, Suzette, A. 'Jane Campion Frames Janet Frame: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young New Zealand Poet'. ''Biography'' 23.4 (2000): 661


  • Mabel Howard ( - 23 June 1972) Union worker, politican, and New Zealand's first woman cabinet minister.McAloon, Jim (2000). 'Howard, Mabel Bowden 1894 - 1972'. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, updated 7 April 2006

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  • Richard Pearse (June 1951 - July 1953) Inventor and aviator. Pearce flight tested aircraft in New Zealand from 1902, and is reputed to have successfully flown on about the 31st March 1903.Bernard John Foster. 1966. 'Pearse, Richard William'. In , A. H. McLintock, ed., ''An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand''. (Accessed 19 August 2007) {Link without Title}



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REFERENCES

  • Blake-Palmer, Geoffrey. 1966. 'Hospitals, Mental', In , A. H. McLintock, ed., ''An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand''. (Accessed 19 August 2007) {Link without Title}



  • Frame, Janet. 1991. ''An Autobiography''. ''To the Island''. ''An Angel At My Table''. ''The Envoy from Mirror City''. New York: George Braziller.


  • Frame, Janet. 1961. Reprinted in 1980. ''Faces in the Water''. London: The Women's Press.