Queen Victoria Hospital was the new name given to the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital in 1966. Run by a committee of management the Hospital provided maternity and other women’s health services. It also operated as an adoption agency. From 1983 some men were also admitted. In 1989 the Queen Victoria Hospital and the Adelaide Children’s…
Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital was the new name given to the Queen’s Home at Rose Park in 1939. Run by a committee of management it provided maternity services for expectant mothers who stayed between 2 and 12 days after the birth of their child. Many women residing at the Kate Cocks Memorial Babies’ Home also…
The Queen’s Home at Rose Park opened in 1902. Run by a committee of management it provided maternity services for mothers and trained nurses in maternity work. From 1912 to 1914 a Babies Ward operated at the Home for babies under one year old. Many women residing at Kate Cocks Memorial Babies’ Home had their…
The Church of England Hostel for Inland Children was opened by Father Percy Smith in a private house at Kensington Park in 1945. Operated by the Church of England as a training home for Aboriginal boys, it initially accommodated six boys from Alice Springs aged between 9 and 12 years. They attended the Marryatville Primary…
The Regency Park Centre for Young Disabled was opened by the Crippled Children’s Association of South Australia in 1976. It replaced the Somerton Crippled Children’s Home and the Ashford House School. Children suffering from disabilities were accommodated in decentralised wards. The Centre was staffed by therapists and teachers from the State’s Education Department. In the…
Novita Children’s Services was the new name adopted by the former Crippled Children’s Association of South Australia in 2004. In 2019 Spastic Centres of South Australia (SCOSA) merged with Novita Children’s Services, and continued to provide disability services under the Novita name.
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 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…
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