The Reformatory School for Boys, Lytton was run by the State Government of Queensland. Boys under the age of 18 years were sentenced to a term of confinement at the reformatory by Children’s Courts. It opened 1881 when inmates from the hulk Proserpine were transferred to the new land-based reformatory. It closed 1899 when the…
The Cootharinga Home for Crippled Children, in North Ward, Townsville was opened on 22 June 1957. The Home was run by the North Queensland Society for Crippled Children and provided care, treatment and accommodation for children suffering the effects of polio. The Home closed in 1994.
The Aboriginal Girls Home was situated in a house at West End called Cranbrook, in the vicinity of Victoria and Kurilpa streets. It acted as a receiving depot for Aboriginal domestic servants from all over Queensland. Any single girl or woman travelling through Brisbane, visiting for medical attention or between domestic service stints was forced…
The Queensland Society for Crippled Children (QSCC) was established in April 1933. In response to a polio epidemic, the QSCC provided institutional care for children affected by the disease.In 2001, the society became known as MontroseAccess.
MontroseAccess was established in 2001 as a support service and care provider for people with physical disabilities. Its varied programs assist clients in learning to be more independent. MoontroseAccess provides ‘in- home’ and ‘out-of-home’ respite accommodation. In 2015, MontroseAccess became Montrose Therapy & Respite Services.
The Montrose Home for Crippled Children, run by the Queensland Society for Crippled Children, opened in 1933. Businessman and philanthropist, Mr George Marchant, donated his own home at Taringa to the Society. Mr Marchant later gifted the site at Consort Street, Corinda to the Society in 1937. The Montrose Home provided accommodation for 90 children,…
The Corinda Infants’ Home, at Corinda was run by a private management committee known as the Queensland Association for the Saving of Infant Life. The Corinda Infant’s Home was established in the home of Mrs W. Duncan who handed over her home, rent free, for four years. In 1919, the premises were handed back to…
The Female Refuge and Infants’ Home, in Brisbane was founded by Ann Drew in 1870. It was run by a committee of women representing various Protestant groups. The Home moved to a new building in Brisbane in 1880 and then the Trustees of the Home bought a property at Toowong. The Female Refuge and Infants…
The St Agnes Babies Home, in Oxley was run by the Queensland Association for the Saving of Infant Life. It opened in 1922 in a large property known as Cliveden. St Agnes Babies Home had previously been known as Duncan Infant’s Home. In 1923, the State Children’s Department refused the Home’s application to be licensed…
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