• Acute admission unit (includes the most violent patients from the whole state)
• Convalescent unit (all patients requiring more than six weeks in-patient care)
• Chronic psychotic rehabilitation unit
• Disturbed epileptic holding unit
• Elderly psychotic holding unit
• Psycho-geriatric acute admission unit
• Psycho-geriatric chronic disturbed holding unit
• Housing for senile dements (not requiring hospital care who have nowhere else to go)
• Chronic sick not mentally ill but ‘difficult’
• Mental retardation assessment unit
• Mental retardation children in-patients unit
• Totally dependent unit
• Mental retardation education & training young patients
• Mental retardation holding unit older patients
• Mental retardation rehabilitation unit
• Disturbed mentally retarded holding unit
• Youthful offenders male
• Youthful behaviour disorders in males (not yet offenders)
• Youthful behaviour disorder female (not offenders – not under propel’ control)
• Youthful offender’s female (minor offences)
• Older psychopaths
• Older subnormal offenders
• Psychotic offenders (serious offences)
• Psychotic offenders (minor offences)
• Socially incapable
• Chronic neurotics
• Social nuisances
• Alcoholics
Memories, stories of Tasmania’s Last Mental Asylum 1960-2001 (Draft) NDS