Please contact the Archivist, Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart:
Postal Address: PO Box 593, South Perth WA 6951
Phone: (08) 9334 0945
Email: enquiries@sosj.org.au
Website: https://www.sosj.org.au/contact-us/
These records are held by Mary MacKillop Centre, South Perth (1887 - current).
St Joseph’s Preventorium, Records is a small collection of information relating to the St Joseph’s Preventorium and school at Kellerberrin. The Sisters of St Joseph ran the Preventorium from 1929 to 1976.
Access to records is restricted to protect the privacy of individuals, but you are very welcome to enquire. The archives are open on a part-time basis. You are encouraged to make an appointment to visit.
There are no case records for children placed at the Preventorium in this collection, but there are is an admission and discharge register (1929-1975, incomplete); some school admission and discharge registers; and various school reports (some mention children by name, but they are mostly descriptions of teaching activities). Unfortunately, there are no photographs of the Preventorium but there are some photographs of the school.
The children who were resident in the Preventorium also went to the school. Sometimes, the school registers note students’ addresses as ‘Preventorium’, and parents’ names and addresses may be included.