Mount Henry Hospital in the Perth suburb of Manning was used as a residential facility to accommodate young people with disabilities in a nursing home environment in 1997. The government-run hospital closed in mid-1998.
Sources used to compile this entry: 'Legislative Assembly - Questions on Notice [Disability Services - Care in the Community]', in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Parliament of Western Australia, 1 May 1997, http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/hansard/hans35.nsf/(ATT)/14FAAB688F43DB18482565F000798F0F/$file/A0501052.PDF; 'AU WA A1000 - Mount Henry Hospital', in State Records Office of Western Australia - Organisations & People, State Records Office of Western Australia, 2015, https://archive.sro.wa.gov.au/index.php/mount-henry-hospital-au-wa-a1000.
Prepared by: Debra Rosser
Created: 26 July 2013, Last modified: 3 June 2014