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Santo António · Funchal

Exact site unknown; shown at the parish

Main article Asylums Madeira's mental asylums: early provision for the insane, held in the hospital or police cells from a 1493 request for a 'Tronco', and the founding of the Manicómio Câmara Pestana at the Quinta do Rochedo in 1906. Covers the Casa de Saúde de São João de Deus at the Trapiche, run by the Brothers of Saint John of God from 1922, and the Câmara Pestana's later role as a women's asylum under the Hospitaller Sisters.

History of provision for the mentally ill in Madeira, beginning with a 1493 request for a 'Tronco'. It records the founding of the Manicómio Câmara Pestana at the Quinta do Rochedo (1906) and of the Casa de Saúde de São João de Deus at the Trapiche (1922–24).

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