The Somerton Crippled Children’s Home was established by the Crippled Children’s Association of South Australia at Somerton in 1939. It initially operated as a home for the after-care of children suffering from polio. From 1951 the Home began to care for children with other disabilities including neuromuscular diseases like multiple sclerosis and Huntington’s disease. In…
The SA Committee for Crippled Children was formed in 1932 to raise funds for the assistance of families with children affected by ‘infantile paralysis’ or poliomyelitis (polio). After receiving part of a the 50,000 pound national ‘gift’ to crippled children from Lord Nuffield in 1935, several sub-committees were formed. These included the Preventative, Curative, Vocational,…
The Crippled Children’s Association of South Australia, formerly the Crippled Children’s Committee, was incorporated in 1939. It ran the Somerton Crippled Children’s Home and the Regency Park Centre. In 2004 the Association voted unanimously to change its name to Novita Children’s Services.
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…
The Convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Carrieton, provided accommodation for Aboriginal children evacuated from the Northern Territory’s Garden Point Mission, Melville Island, during World War II. The evacuees were funded by the government and cared for by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. In 1944, 34 girls and 7…
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,…
The Northfield Consumptive Home was opened in 1931 at Northfield to replace the Adelaide Hospital’s Consumptive Home on North Terrace. The Northfield Consumptive Home provided treatment to patients with advanced tuberculosis and cancer. These patients may have included children. It had beds for 112 patients. In 1936 the Northfield Consumptive Home was re-named the Morris…
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