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Northern Territory – East Arm settlement – General PART 2

This file contains correspondence relating to the running of the East Arm Leprosarium in the Northern Territory. Access Conditions ‘Open with exception’. This record is digitised and ‘Open with exception’ which means that some parts of the file are open and other parts are not. The website of the National Archives provides more information about…

Leprosarium at East Arm, Darwin (Formerly of Channell [sic] Island) – Entitlements of inmates to pensions and allowances

This file contains correspondence relating to the running of the East Arm Leprosarium and its predecessor, the Channel Island Leprosarium. Much of the correspondence relates to entitlements and pension claims for patients. Access Conditions ‘Open with exception’. This record is digitised and ‘Open with exception’ which means that some parts of the file are open…

Leprosarium, East Arm Darwin

This file contains correspondence relating to the running of the East Arm Leprosarium and its predecessor, the Channel Island Leprosarium. Access Conditions This record is open for access and a digitised version is available for viewing through Recordsearch. Information about how to access records through Recordsearch is also available on the website. Records Much of…

Leprosy Transfer of lepers to proposed lazaret at Darwin

This file contains correspondence and newspaper clippings related to the transport of people with leprosy from Western Australia to the proposed, and later new, lazaret at Darwin – the Channel Island Leprosarium. Access Conditions Open. This record is open for access and a digitised version is available for viewing through Recordsearch. Information about how to…

Leprosy, Transfer of Lepers from North Australia to the Peel Island Lazarette

This file contains a small amount of correspondence relating to the movement of people suffering from leprosy from the Northern Territory to the Peel Island Leprosarium in Queensland. Access Conditions Open. This record is open for access and a digitised version is available for viewing through Recordsearch. Information about how to access records through Recordsearch…

(Mrs) C. _________ (1) Classification as an Aboriginal. (2) Proposed retention of her daughter in Aboriginal compound

This file includes correspondence related to an application by an Aboriginal woman to have her daughter released from the Darwin Convent where she was being maintained by the Chief Protector. The file includes investigations into conditions at the Convent and provides information about government policies in relation to children maintained there. Access Conditions Open. This…

Maintenance of quadroon and other children at Darwin Convent

Maintenance of quadroon and other children at Darwin Convent is a file of government correspondence relating to the placement and maintenance of a number of Aboriginal children at the Darwin Convent. The letters include the names of a number of children and provide insights into welfare policies of the time. Access Conditions Open. This record…

Department of Aboriginal Affairs – Regional Office – Alice Springs – Monthly and Annual Reports – FWOs

This file mainly contains tables of statistics related to the work of the FWOs – Female Welfare Officers – working for the Welfare Branch in Alice Springs. The file covers the years 1960 and 1961 only. Access Conditions ‘Open with exception’. This record has been digitised and is ‘Open with exception’ which means that some…

Department of Aboriginal Affairs – Regional Office – Alice Springs – Child Endowment claims – Receiving Home

This file contains Claims for payment of Child Endowment from the Welfare Branch in Alice Springs for children in the Receiving Home. The forms include background information about children in the Home. Access Conditions ‘Open with exception’. This record has been digitised and is ‘Open with exception’ which means that some parts of the file…

State Children’s Council Receiving Home for State Children

This State Children’s Council file contains correspondence and copies of Minutes of Council meetings relating to the establishment of the first Government run Receiving Home in Darwin. Documents on the file also concern the fire which destroyed the Fannie Bay Receiving Home in May 1957 and arrangements made for re-establishing the Home at an alternative…