‘General administration files, multiple number, closed series – Department for Community Welfare and successor agencies’ (GRS/2401) is a series of records concerning various subjects such as: minutes of meetings, ministerial enquiries, funding agreements, training programmes etc. related to the work of the Department. These files rarely mention the names of children. Access Conditions A Research…
These records of the Crippled Children’s Association of SA Inc, held by the State Library of SA, include case files from the Social Workers’ Department together with general organisational files. Please note some of these records are restricted and can only be accessed with written permission from the Medical Director or Clinical Director of Novita…
The Professional Standards Office Records Service of the Catholic Church holds a number of folders containing information relating to individual former residents of a number of Homes run by the Catholic Church. The contents of these folders vary. Some contain little or no information but others may contain items such as admission forms, maintenance and…
The Visitors’ Book – Boys’ Reformatory, Magill, is a single leather bound volume with the title embossed on the front cover. It was used by the Magill Boys Reformatory to record visits from 1933 to 1968 by government committees, members of the Children’s Welfare and Public Relief Board, community leaders, and local, interstate and overseas…
A miscellaneous collection of records from Kate Cocks Babies’ Home held by the State Library of South Australia. It includes a handwritten history of the Home written by Mrs Gladys Taylor, 1 envelope of correspondence from between 1970-1979, 1 envelope of balance sheets from 1964-1976 (also including an official Collector’s Badge) and 3 volumes of…
These indexes to correspondence received by the Destitute Poor Department, Destitute Person’s Department and the Children’s Welfare and Public Relief Department are held by State Records of South Australia. Access Conditions A Research Centre Members card, obtainable at the Archives, is required to research records held at State Records. Although some very early records relating…
Block plan of Destitute Asylum with notes and reference to photographs of the building. This series is 12 pages long and also include electrostatic copies of pages 1 – 8. There is an electrostatic copy of the block plan of the Destitute Asylum from c.1890 and newspaper cuttings about the demolition of buildings in the…
This series comprises a volume that records patients admitted to the Northfield Consumptive Home, later the Morris Hospital. Access Conditions A Research Centre Members card, obtainable at the Archives, is required to research records held at State Records. Although some very early records relating to children in care in South Australia are open for access,…
This series consists of registers of patients admitted to the Northfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, later the Northfield Wards of the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Access Conditions A Research Centre Members card, obtainable at the Archives, is required to research records held at State Records. Although some very early records relating to children in care in South…
The Series was held by State Records of South Australia under the title ‘Kalyra sanatorium fund register of patients’ with the reference number MRG50/46. The volume was returned to the Adelaide City Archives. Access Conditions For access to records held by the Adelaide City Archives please contact the Archives Officer. Public access to records less…