Identity area
Type of entity
Governmental body
Authorized form of name
Physician Superintendent, Valkenberg Mental Hospital
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- HVG
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Contact area
Description area
Dates of existence
1916 – 1959
History
Mental disease legislation was re-drafted when the Lunacy Act, 1891 (Act No 25 of 1891) replaced prior legislation. The Valkenberg Mental Hospital was opened on 20 February 1891 for mental cases in buildings that had formerly been the Porter Reformatory. In 1894 the Valkenberg Lunatic Asylum Act, 1894 (Act No 17 of 1894) was passed, which authorized the Government to spend £40 000 upon the construction and equipping of the building which is the present-day main block of the institution.
Places
Western Cape Province.
Cape Province.
Cape Town.
Observatory.
Cape Province.
Cape Town.
Observatory.
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
HVG
Institution identifier
KAB
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAAR
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Partial
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
20 April 2022 (creation Marise Bronkhorst)
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
- Latin