Extensive historical notes on verso of backing sheet: Melbourne is well served by her institutions for the care of orphan children. Here are some of the inmates of the Presbyterian Babies Home in Lansdowne Street, East Melbourne. The chapel in the background of the picture is that of Scotch College, which for many years was…
The former prison hulk HM Success was the site of a reformatory for boys.
Museum Victoria’s ‘The story of Melbourne’ exhibition features a bottle sterilising rack used at Methodist Babies’ Home from 1929. This webpage is no longer in operation. this URL is taken from the wayback machine and is dated 13 March 2018.