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Health / Hobart, TAS

Fire destroys abandoned mental health hospital building near Hobart

Summary

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Fire crews were called overnight to the original Millbrook Rise building, which opened as a psychopathic hospital north of Hobart in 1934. The building has been abandoned for several years.

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