Public Record Office Victoria holds extensive records from many of the institutions which have provided some form of care or control over people with a mental illness and people with an intellectual disability.   Most of these records are clinical records, documenting the treatment of individuals admitted to mental institutions.

Select a category below to begin your search or view the PROVguide to help you with your search:

Alphabetical Lists of Patients in Asylums 1849-1885
Ararat Asylum – Nominal Register of Patients 1867-1906
Ballarat / Sunbury Asylum – Nominal Register of Patients 1877-1907
Beechworth Asylum – Case Books of Male Patients 1867-1912
Beechworth Asylum – Case Books of Female Patients 1878-1912
Bendigo Receiving Ward – Register of Patients 1874-1908
Collingwood Asylum – Register of Patients 1866-1873
Kew Asylum – Register of Patients 1871-1919
Royal Park Hospital for the Insane – Nominal Register of Patients 1907-1913
Sunnyside Licensed House – Asylum Records (case books) 1905-1915
Yarra Bend Asylum – Index to Male and Female Case Books 1848-1912