- Title
- Visibly Hidden in Suva: St Giles
- Creator
- Leckie, Jacqueline
- Relation
- Suva Stories A History of the Capital of Fiji p. 207-229
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/SS.2022.08
- Publisher
- ANU Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Since 1884 Suva has had a mental asylum, first known as the Public Lunatic Asylum or the Suva Asylum: a physical site that has conjured fear and mystery, and been pivotal to the stigma associated with mental illness in Fiji. In 1936 the asylum was renamed the Suva Mental Hospital, because the old name was ‘too redolent of Bedlam’. During the early 1960s the name St Giles Psychiatric Hospital came into use, but the term ‘asylum’ has persisted.
- Subject
- Suva; mental illness; asylum; patients
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1479497
- Identifier
- uon:50316
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781760465339
- Language
- eng
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