I have come across a number of burials in the Sydenham Cemetery in Christchurch that have their addresses listed as Asylum.
There are five separate graves covering the period Nov 1906 - Jan 1907.
Next to them is a grave with four infants in it, with deaths from Oct 1906 - Jan 1907.

Does anyone have any idea what may have happened to these people who presumably were living at the local asylum and all died in a short period of each other?