The General Correspondence – Hospital and Health Administration files is an archival series created by the Hospital and Medical Services Division, located in the Public Health Department. It mostly contains information about hospital administration, as well as some items related to children’s homes.
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The following items in this series relate to Tasmanian children’s homes and hospitals. Each item’s title starts with the item ID number, e.g. HSD6/1/1561, which will need to be quoted when ordering an item from Tasmanian Archives.
Ashley Boys Home
- HSD6/1/1561 60/93 Miscellaneous-Ashley Boys Home [Dated 1948]
Bethany Boys’ Home
- HSD6/1/5551 60/BB General Bethany Boys Home-Miscellaneous [Dated 1957]
This item was created by the Hospital and Medical Services Division, which was located in the Public Health Department. It contains a letter with some information about the purpose of Bethany Boys’ Home, its policy, and showing that it was run by the Churches of Christ in Tasmania.
Clarendon Children’s Home
- HSD6/1/2384 60/104 Miscellaneous-Clarendon Children’s-Home [Dated 1949]
This item contains a request from the Board of the Home to the Director of Public Health for a nutritionist to assess the children’s diet. The file also contains the nutritionist’s report. It provides an insight into some of the routines of the Home as well as giving a detailed account of the food that the children ate.
- HSD6/3/1713 60 CL General Files – Clarendon Children’s Home [Dated 1955-1961]
Elim Maternity Hospital
- HSD6/3/2625 521/73/10 Private Hospitals and Institutions – Hobart – Salvation Army “Elim” – Inspections, Reports, Enquiries, Registration [Dated 1951-1973]
- HSD6/3/2626 521/73/20 Private Hospitals and Institutions – Hobart – Salvation Army “Elim” – State Aid [Dated 1961-1966]
- HSD6/3/2627 521/73/30 Private Hospitals and Institutions – Hobart – Salvation Army “Elim” – Commonwealth Aid [Dated 1962-1972]
Kennerley Boys’/Children’s Home
- HSD6/3/1799 60 KE General – K – Kennerley Boys Home [Dated 1962-1971]
This item contains information about the Kennerley Children’s Home Act, the sale of the Arthur Street property, and the acquisition of land to build cottage homes in the northern suburbs of Hobart.
Launceston Girls’ Home
- HSD6/1/1567 60/102 Miscellaneous-Girls Home, Launceston-Proposed erection of new home [Dated 1948]
Maylands Salvation Army Home for Girls
- HSD6/3/2631 521/77/10 Private Hospitals, Nursing and Rest Homes – Hobart – Salvation Army Maylands Childrens Home, Pirie Street [Dated 1969]
Mothercraft Home
- HSD6/1/2376 60/96 Miscellaneous-Mothercraft Home-Launceston-Re proposed site [Dated 1949]
Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys
- HSD6/1/1689 73/10 Launceston Public Hospital-Bedside Lockers-Transfer to Northern Boys’ Home [Dated 1948]
- HSD6/1/1997 101/8 Meercroft Hospital Devonport-Meercroft Estate-Request for permanent camp for Boys’ Home [Dated 1948]
- HSD6/1/5965 101/4/3 Hospitals-Meercroft-Buildings-Northern Tasmanian Boy’s Home Barn etc [Dated 1952-1963]
- HSD6/3/2575 510/45/20 Private Hospitals, Nursing and Rest Homes – Devonport Municipality – Meercroft Home for the Aged – Transfer of Title from Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys to Meercroft home for the Aged – Land [Dated 1970]
Orana Retarded Children’s Home
- HSD6/3/1668 59/4/3 Rehabilitation – Services for Handicapped – Individual Hostels – Orana Hostel – 156 George Town Road [Dated 1968-1973]
This item was created by the Hospital and Medical Services Division which was located in the Public Health Department. The file contains information about the origins and site of Orana Retarded Children’s Home.
Rosebank Cottage
- HSD6/2/957 95/405 (1) Tasmanian Spastics Association – including Rosebank Cottage – Temporary File [Dated 1975-1981]
This item was created by the Hospital and Medical Services Division, located in the Public Health Department. It contains historical information about Rosebank Cottage for Disabled Children and information about wards of state with physical disabilities ‘cared’ for at the Mothercraft Home.
St Giles’ Home
- HSD6/3/1678 59/4/9 Rehabilitation – Services for Handicapped – Individual Hostels etc – St Giles – 65 Amy Road Launceston [Dated 1956-1972]
This item was created by the Hospital and Medical Services Division, located in the Public Health Department. It contains historical information about St Giles’ Home, mostly in the form of newspaper clippings and correspondence.
St John’s Park/ Wingfield/ After Care School
- HSD6/1/539 98/17 St Johns Park-Report-second annual Wingfield Outings Club. [Dated 1946]
This item contains details about day trips that the club gave to children at Wingfield House in 1946.
- HSD6/1/542 98/21 St Johns Park-Wingfield House-correspondence-childrens diets. [Dated 1946]
This item consists of a letter from the Director of Hospitals and Medical Services to the Matron of Wingfield written on 18 June 1946. The Director had received a complaint about the children’s evening meals which too often consisted of saveloys. He recommended a wider choice of food and made some suggestions.
- HSD6/1/987 70/4/3B Royal Hobart Hospital-Wingfield House-School Rooms and Teaching Facilities [Dated 1957-1962]
This item contains information about the After Care School and Wingfield School. Both were at St John’s Park, New Town.
- HSD6/1/2823 98/16 St John’s Park-Conveyance of children to Wingfield school [Dated 1949]
- HSD6/1/5938 98/4/14 Hospitals-St John’s Park-Buildings-Karingal Mental Defectives Block [Dated 1953-1961]
- HSD6/1/5939 98/4/14A Hospitals-St John’s Park-Buildings-Mental Defectives Block (Male)-Furnishings and Equipment [Dated 1959]
- HSD6/1/5947 98/4/26 Hospitals-St John’s Park-Buildings-Secure Unit-Detention of Delinquent Children [Dated 1959]
Sunshine Home
- HSD6/1/3094 60/20 Miscellaneous-Sunshine Holiday Home [Dated 1951-1952]
Tasmanian Society for the Care of Crippled Children
- HSD6/1/5607 60/13/4 Society for Crippled Children-Proposed Site New Wingfield [Dated 1953-1959]
- HSD6/1/5608 60/13/4A Society for Crippled Children-Acquisition of Site for Crippled Children’s Home-Lindisfarne [Dated 1948-1959]
Yalambee Hostel
- HSD6/3/1676 59/4/8B Rehabilitation – Services for Handicapped – Yalambee Hostel – Glenorchy – Transfer of Property to Retarded Children’s Welfare Association [Dated 1970-1972]
Multiple Homes
- HSD6/1/6026: 110-Proposed Home for Mental Defectives-Hobart (continued on 98/4/14) [Dated 1949-1953]
This item contains correspondence of the Public Health Department about a proposal to build a home for children with intellectual disabilities. The Mental Defectives Home at St John’s Park was no longer a suitable place for children as the site was now mostly for elderly people. The file also contains minimal information about Ashley Home for Boys, Lachlan Park, the Magdalen Home, and Wybra Hall.
