The Cottage Home for Feeble-Minded Children, Parramatta, was established by the State Children’s Relief Board in 1907. It was intended to provide special treatment for children who were intellectually disabled or psychologically disturbed, but were not so unwell that they needed to be sent to a hospital for the insane. It offered schooling to the…
Sydney Norland Nurseries was a private children’s home that was opened in 1909 as part of the Norland Institute or Norland Nursing College. It operated in various sites in Sydney, including Waverley-Woollahra, Rose Bay and Ashfield-Summer Hill, from 1909 until the 1940s. In 1910 Norland Nurseries was licensed as an infants’ home by the State…
The Home for Mothers with Infants, Croydon, was a home established by the State Children’s Relief Board in 1909. It was probably a home for unmarried mothers and was possibly related to Cicada Home, which was a government home for unmarried mothers and babies that opened in the same suburb in the year the Home…
Thirlmere Babies Home was established by the State Children’s Relief Department in 1907. The home aimed to keep nursing mothers and babies together and to provide care for babies without their mothers or who were sickly and could not be fostered. Once children recovered they were either boarded out, discharged with their mothers, or sent…
The Home for Sick Infants, Paddington, was established by the State Children’s Relief Board in 1907. Sometimes called Hargrave House, it was a home for babies who were too unwell to board out but could not be admitted to a general hospital. It also took in mothers (usually single girls). Between 400 and 500 babies…
Santa Marina, at Waverley, was opened by the State Children’s Relief Board in 1919. It was as a home for babies, expectant mothers and mothers with babies. In its first year of operation it housed a total of 123 mothers and 138 babies, for an average of 3 to 6 months. It possibly closed around…
Cicada, in Croydon, was opened by the State Children’s Relief Board in Queen Street in 1911. It housed mothers (mostly young women and pregnant state wards) and their babies, as well as babies who were without their mothers. In 1919 it moved to another house in the same suburb. In 1919, 416 women and 456…
The Probationary Farm Home, Dora Creek, was established at Dora Creek in 1900 by the State Children’s Relief Department as a special institution for boys whose behaviour was such that they might otherwise have been institutionalised in Newcastle Hospital for the Insane. Dora Creek was a farm home, under the supervision of a private farmer,…
Hillside Home for Mothers and Babies was located at the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children and was established by the State Children’s Relief Board in 1913. In 1915, when the New South Wales Government resumed Randwick Asylum for use as accommodation for World War I soldiers, Hillside Home moved to Ormond House in Paddington. It…
Hillside Training Home for Girls was established in Ormond House in Paddington in 1920 by the State Children’s Relief Department. It was a home that trained girls aged 10 to 14 in domestic service. It possibly closed when the State Children’s Relief Board became the Child Welfare Department and its activities were moved from Ormond…
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