St Anne’s was a 10-bed maternity hospital for unmarried mothers. It was established by the Society of St Vincent de Paul at St Anthony’s Croydon in 1944, in a cottage beside the Kelly Wing. It was converted to a nursery in 1952.
Tresillian Vaucluse was established around 1935 or 1936 in Greycliffe House, which is within Nielsen Park, Vaucluse. It was a mothercraft home run by Tresillian. It cared for mothers with babies and for babies who needed nursing. By the 1960s it looked after around 110 mothers and 177 babies a year. Unmarried mothers worked at…
Tresillian Willoughby is a Tresillian Family Care Centre. It was established as a Mothercraft Nursing Home in 1927, to support mothers and care for babies, and in 2012 continues to provide support to parents of young children. In the 1960s Tresillian North Home could accommodate 10 mothers with breastfed babies, eight artificially fed babies and…
Tresillian Wollstonecraft, or Carpenter House, was a Tresillian Mothercraft Home that was established in 1940. It was a mothercraft training home for nurses and, by the 1960s, housed around 200 mothers and 260 babies during the course of a year. In 2012 Tresillian Wollstonecraft was still providing services to mothers and babies from Carpenter House….
The Shaftesbury Home for Babies and Mothers was established by the State Children’s Relief Board in the old Shaftesbury Reformatory buildings on Old South Head Road, in present-day Vaucluse, around 1913 or 1914. It was a replacement for the Thirlmere Home for Babies and was one of a number of homes for infants and unmarried…
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…
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