Archaeological site only - no headstones remain. In the north-eastern corner of the Gladesville Hospital grounds, a former mental asylum once notorious for its crowded conditions and neglected inmates, is a nondescript plot where the corpses of more than 1000 former psychiatric patients lie. Originally known as The Tarban Creek Lunatic Asylum, the first patients arrived from Liverpool Asylum and the Female Factory at Parramatta in 1838. A register of the burials, held in the archives of the Health Department, shows the bones of 1228 inmates buried there with no headstones or markings. The names, dates of admission and dates of death of 923 patients are listed in the register but the identities of those in the first 305 graves are lost, if they were ever recorded. The stigma of mental illness was such that most families did not claim the bodies of relatives who died in care.