Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic becomes a teaching hospital in 1921
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Broughton House, built in 1840 as a gentleman's residence at Callan Park, was first utilised by the army as a convalescent home and hospital for ex-servicemen with psychological and nervous disorders during the First World War.[1] By 1921 additional wards were built, and it became a psychiatric hospital for the general public known as Broughton Hall, also open to those seeking voluntary admission who were not certified under the Mental Health Act. A large outpatient clinic operated, as well as beds for 100 patients.[1] The first Medical Superintendent was faculty graduate Dr Sydney Evan-Jones[1] (MB BS 1910) who began his career here and was appointed as a teacher at the University. He became Medical Superintendent in 1925, a position he was to hold until his death in 1948.[1] Patient welfare was of great importance to Jones, who designed the grounds around the lawns and old trees of the original estate. He claimed that the gardens of Broughton Hall should be utilised "as machinery whereby a patient's mind could be directed from neurosis to normality."[1] The hospital quickly became an important centre of learning for students in psychiatry and neurology.[1] Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic and Callan Park Hospital were amalgamated in 1976 and named the Rozelle Hospital.
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