Please contact the Community and Personal Histories Team: Postal address: Level 9, 1 William Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 Phone: 1800 650 230 (toll-free within Australia) or (07) 3003 6466 Email: cph@dsdsatsip.qld.gov.au Website: https://www.qld.gov.au/firstnations/cultural-awareness-heritage-arts/family-personal-history
The Charters Towers Mental Hospital, at Charters Towers, was run by the State Government of Queensland. It opened in 1954 and closed in 2001. A new psychiatric facility was built on the site. It was named Charters Towers Rehabilitation Unit. The Charters Towers Mental Hospital’s first patients were admitted 16th September 1954 on transfer from…
The Aurukun Mission was an Indigenous community situated south of Weipa in far north Queensland. Run by the Presbyterian Church, it opened in 1904. Children on the Mission were housed in dormitories from around the age of 11. The dormitory system of care was abolished in 1968. The Aurukun Mission was established on 4 August…
The Preventative Home for Girls, in Riverview, was run by the Salvation Army. The home opened in 1897 and housed neglected girls 15 years and under. It operated as an industrial school, with the girls undertaking domestic and agricultural tasks. In October 1898 the facility changed to an Industrial School for Boys. The girls were…
The Education Department was responsible for administration of preschool to secondary school education. It was established in 1957 and abolished in 2004. The Department ran the Queensland School for the Deaf from 1957-1988. The Department was replaced by the Education and the Arts Department. With the change of name of the Secretary of Public Instruction…
The Admission Registers – Special School, Series ID18361, relate to the Narbethong State Special School. They contain details about children admitted to the Narbethong State Special School, including child’s name, admission date and number, age on admission, date of birth, parent’s names, occupations, and address, religion, grade the child was admitted to, date of leaving…
The Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital, situated at Herston, was established in 1967. It was previously known as the Brisbane Women’s Hospital. Lowson House, in Herston, was the psychiatric unit of the Brisbane Women’s Hospital (and later, the Royal Brisbane Hospital). Lowson House opened in the 1930s and closed in the 1980s.
The Admission Registers, Series ID 4515, relate to the Queensland School for the Deaf. The six registers contain details about students admitted to the Queensland School for the Deaf. Information recorded in the registers includes admission date and numer; pupil’s name in full with the surname appearing first; age at time of admission; date of…
These Admission Registers relate to the Reformatory School for Boys – Hulk Proserpine, Reformatory School for Boys, Lytton, Diamantina Reformatory School for Boys and Westbrook Reformatory for Boys. They record details of children admitted to the reformatories, including name, age, physical description, birthplace, trade or profession, details of trial and conviction, previous convictions, parent’s details,…
Please contact the Information Access Unit, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital: Postal address: Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Herston, Queensland 4029 Phone: (07) 3646 8323 Email: IAU-RBWH@health.qld.gov.au Website: https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/about-us/information-access-privacy/right-to-information
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