Lake Alice Hospital
Lake Alice Hospital was a rural psychiatric facilty, near Marton in Rangitikei, New Zealand. It was opened in 1950, and had a Maximum Security unit.
Like many New Zealand psychiatric hospitals, Lake Alice was self-sufficient, with its own farm, workshop, bakery, laundry, and fire station. It also had swimming pools as well as glasshouses 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.[4]
References
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Miller, Grant (July 27, 2006). "Buyer and Price of Lake Alice a Mystery". Manuwatu Standard. Retrieved 2007-04-01. Check date values in:
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Murphy, Padraic (July 11, 2003). "Probe on Shock Doctor Claims". The Age. Retrieved 2007-04-01. Check date values in:
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Johnson, Martin (August 29, 2006). "Psychiatrist Must Pay $55,000 After Sex Abuse Case". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2007-04-01. Check date values in:
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Johnson, Martin (July 21, 2006). "Lake Alice Doctor Pre-empts Tribunal". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 2007-04-01. Check date values in:
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