Please contact the State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales:
Postal Address: PO Box 516, Kingswood NSW 2747
Phone: (02) 9673 1788
Email: info@records.nsw.gov.au
Website: http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/contact-us/contact-us/
These records are held by State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales (June 1961 - current).
Waterfall Sanatorium Records describes records that were created by Waterfall Sanatorium and in some cases the Garrawarra Hospital from 1909 to 1971. The records held at the Museums of History NSW (State Archives) contain a range of types from admission cards, case books and histories, to cemetery registers. It is not known if children are identified in all the record types.
All patient identifying records are closed for 110 years, marked as Closed for Public Access (CPA). Anything outside of the 110 years is Open to Public Access (OPA), however, it is important to note that records covering the duration of treatment for a patient which passes into the closed period, will need be redacted to ensure information within the closed period is not accessed without permission to do so. To request these records you will need to contact the NSW Health South Eastern Sydney Local Health District.
The information used to describe the records below is provided in the Museums of History NSW (State Archives collection) catalogue. Where no additional information is provided, no further details are known. The NRS number provided for each is the series number which will help with requesting records. More administrative records that were created by Waterfall Sanatorium in the management of the institution are held by the Museums of History NSW and are not described below.