The following article appeared in “The Number 5 : A Magazine Published Monthly by the Patients and Staff, No. 5 Australian General Hospital, St. Kilda Road. October, 1918”, two months after most of the staff and patients at No. 5 AGH in St. Kilda Road were transferred to Mont Park (There was only one more […]
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1919 – Curative Training at Mont Park
Curative training at Mont Park, Victoria (“Repatriation”, December, 1919 – (A Monthly Bulletin Published by the Department of Repatriation for Information of its Local Committees and all interested in the Return to Civil Life of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Forces) “In the past, there was much debate as to when patients in military […]
Macleod Avenue of Honour
Reprinted from Heidelberg Historian (newsletter of the Heidelberg Historical Society) June 1990 “Avenue of Honour” On Monday 23 April 1990, some 250 people attended the unveiling of a memorial and the dedication of the Avenue of Honour in the Mont Park Grounds, near Cherry Street, Macleod. The plaque records the planting of the Avenue by World […]
The Mont Park Asylum
Lands at Mont Park were first considered for an asylum site in 1906 when the members of the Cabinet under the State Premier Mr Bent (later Sir Thomas Bent) and the Inspector-General for the Insane, Dr. Ernest Jones inspected 214 acres of land including the area known as Sugarloaf Hill. It was noted as conveniently located […]
Mont Park Hospital
The former Mont Park Hospital was located in Macleod near and on the site of LaTrobe University and Springthorpe Housing development. Mont Park mental asylum was opened in 1912, and in 1915 an army hospital opened for war injuries, disease and mental illness.