sentences:  The need for a new facility arose due to over-crowding conditions at Claremont Mental Hospital.Following a report on the inadequacies of facilities at Claremont in 1924, a site was purchased from the Catholic Church at Point Heathcote.The Point Heathcote Mental Reception Home was constructed as a 'home for the reception of recoverable patients, and not for senile, epileptic, or mentally deficient patients'.