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South Australia - Archival Series

Admission Registers (1933 - 1968)

Junior Red Cross Homes

From
1933
To
1968
Website
http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:80/record=b2198959~S1
Reference No
SRG 770/32
Legal Status
State Library of South Australia Archival Number

The Admission Registers from the Junior Red Cross Homes are two separate registers. One register is a large hard-cover landscape volume which spans the dates from 1933 to 1958. The other register is a hard-cover A4 sized volume which dates from 1961 to 1968. There are no records from 1958 to 1961. Both admission reigsters are held by the State Library of South Australia.

Details

Access Conditions

Researchers can have access to documents, photographs, recordings and transcripts held at the State Library of South Australia on presenting their Readers Ticket. Readers Tickets are available from the Library. Records, recordings and transcripts can only be used in the Somerville Reading Room and are not available for borrowing.

Access to this material at the State Library requires written permission from the person or organisation that deposited the records. Please contact the State Library for more information.

Records

The first register has hand-drawn columns and entries on one page that give: (1) Name, (2) Address, (3) Sex, (4) Age, (5) Date of Admission, (6) Recommended by, (7) Disability, (8) Date of discharge, (9) Payment. From 1939 the pages are divided into Boys and Girls.
Notes on contents - Entries are arranged by date of admission. Many children listed in the register were undergoing treatment at the Adelaide Children's Hospital. (7) Disability: sometimes records behavioural problems and reasons for admission. (8) Date of discharge: sometimes includes information about where child was transferred to.

In the second register entries appear in printed columns across two pages as follows. Left hand page: (1) Number, (2) Name of patient, (3) Born, (4) Parent/Guardian surname and initial, (5) Address. Right hand page: (6) Discharged, (7) Medical Officer, (8) Diagnosis, (9) Hospital Fund, (10) Gross Fees, (11) CW Benefits, (12) Nett. Notes on contents - Entries arranged in order of admission date. (10) Gross Fees column only filled in sporadically. As of 9/65 Reason is pencilled in and column records reasons for admission, such as desertion or illness of parents, as well as information about transfers to other homes.

Quantity: 2 registers

Publications

Online Resources

Sources used to compile this entry: George, Karen, Finding your own way, Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South Australia Inc., 2005, http://nunku.org.au/resources/.

Prepared by: Karen George and Gary George