Thesis

Author

Evans, Caroline

Title

Protecting the Innocent: Tasmania's Neglected Children, Their Parents and State Care, 1890-1918

Type of Work

PhD thesis

Imprint

University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1999, 251 pp

Url

http://eprints.utas.edu.au/14453/

Related Entries

Concepts

• Training (c. 1860 - c. 1980)

Glossary Terms

• Adoption
• Boarding Out (1844 - c. 1970)
• Industrial School (1867 - c. 1945)
• Inspector (1915 - c. 1960)
• Training School (1881 - 1926)
• Uncontrollable (1896 - 1997)

Legislation

• The Children of the State Act 1918 (1918 - 1936)
• Infant Life Protection Act 1907 (1907 - 1920)
• Prevention of Cruelty to and Better Protection of Children Act 1895 (1895 - 1936)
• The Public Health Act 1903 (1904 - 1935)
• Youthful Offenders, Destitute and Neglected Children's Act 1896 (1896 - 1918)

Organisations

• Boys' Training School (1884 - 1926)
• Central Committee for Boarding Out Destitute Children (1881 - 1896)
• Charitable Grants Department, State of Tasmania (1901 - 1934)
• Charitable Grants Department, Colony of Tasmania (1873 - 1901)
• Chief Secretary's Department, Colony of Tasmania (1882 - 1901)
• Chief Secretary's Department and Premier's Office, State of Tasmania (1914 - 1955)
• Children's Court (1905 - )
• Children's Protection Society (1903 - 1920?)
• Glen Dhu Babies' Home (c. 1907 - 1911)
• Hobart Benevolent Society (1859 - )
• Hobart City Mission (1852 - )
• Hobart Girls' Industrial School (1862 - 1945)
• Hobart Girls' Training School (1881 - 1905)
• Hobart Receiving Home (1898 - 1958)
• Launceston City Mission (1854 - )
• Neglected Children's Department, State of Tasmania (1901 - 1918)
• Neglected Children's Department, Colony of Tasmania (1896 - 1901)
• Police Department, State of Tasmania (1898 - 2004)
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1885 - )
• Women's Health Association (1901 - 1920?)