The former hospital has also become famous for its appearances in several blockbuster films, including Shutter Island, The Box and Knives Out.. Erindale formed part of the Parkside Lunatic Asylum which opened in 1870. While mental health care is now shedding its stigma as celebrities, politicians and average people speak up about their diagnoses and treatment, that wasnt always the case. Progression from west to east, to the furthest Z Ward, held as much value to the staff as it did the patients, with unruly staff believed to be demoted further east into the more difficult wards. The hospital also operated its own morgue, and an on-campus cemetery features thousands of graves marked only with numbers instead of the names of the souls interred there. He dissected their brains, looking for any physiological evidence that could be held responsible for mental illness. The first lobotomy performed in Glenside was in 1945 on a difficult female patient who needed to be held in restraints. The first Leucotomy performed in Australia was under-taken at the operating theatre at the Parkside MentalHospital on 10th October, 1945. The asylum was later renamed to Glenside Hospital in 1967 which it is still known as today, however most of the original land has been subdivided and sold off for housing. The pharmaceutical company Smith, Kline, & French (now GlaxoSmithKline) owned a lab at the hospital, where they allegedly conducted questionable testing on patients, likely without their consent. There are two gates into the property; the second gate (coming from route 27) is open from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and you can drive all the way into the campus or park just past the gate and walk. Another account recalled how two nurses became complacent doing the rounds and checking the patients during their night shift and decided to have a 4 hour nap. Abandoned Insane Asylum - YouTube Patients at the Volterra facility suffered immensely until the hospital was abandoned in 1978 following the passage of the Basaglia Law, which mandated the closure of all mental hospitals in Italy. This institution was originally called Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded. Thorazine was hailed as a chemical restraint and a liquid lobotomy which had the same effect of disabling brain function as a lobotomy, without the surgery.