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Records of Point Pearce Aboriginal School, State Records of South Australia

There is a small collection of records from the Point Pearce Aboriginal School, held by the State Records of South Australia. The collection includes admission registers and roll books, which contain information about children attending the school, including Aboriginal children living at Point Pearce Aboriginal Station. Access Conditions The Roll Books in this series are…

Records of Raukkan Aboriginal School, formerly Point McLeay Mission School, State Records of South Australia

There is a small collection of records from the Raukkan Aboriginal School, also known as the Point McLeay Mission School, held by the State Records of South Australia. The collection includes admission registers and inspectors registers, which contain information about the school itself, and children attending the school, which includes Aboriginal children living at Raukkan/Point…

Records of Glenside Hospital, later Glenside Campus Mental Health Service, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service

State Records of South Australia hold a collection of records created by the Glenside Hospital, later called the Glenside Campus Mental Health Service, that contain details about people admitted to the hospital and the treatments they received. Some of the record books used by the Glenside Hospital were also used by the earlier Colonial Lunatic…

Records of Parkside Lunatic Asylum, later Parkside Mental Hospital

State Records of South Australia hold a collection of records created by the Parkside Lunatic Asylum, later known as the Parkside Mental Hospital, that contain details about people admitted to the institution and the treatments they received. Some of the record books used by the Parkside Asylum/Hospital were also used by the earlier Colonial Lunatic…

Records of the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum

State Records of South Australia hold a collection of records created by the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum that contain details about people admitted to the asylum. The records include admission books and papers, discharge and trial-leave papers, patient case books, patient property books, post-mortem books, visitor’s books, and various administrative papers that include details about patients…

Records of the Colonial Lunatic Asylum, Parkside

State Records of South Australia hold a collection of records created by the Colonial Lunatic Asylum, Parkside, that contain details about people admitted to the asylum. The records include admission books and papers, discharge and trial-leave papers, visitor’s books, and various administrative papers that include details about patients transferred between the asylum and other institutions….

Statements of residents’ wages and payments for board at Allambi Girls Hostel

This series of records contain information about wages paid to girls living at the Allambi Girls Hostel, and payments made by the girls ti the Hostel in boarding fees, between 1948 and 1951. No further description of these records has been provided in the State Records of South Australia catalogue. Access Conditions Access to these…

Admission books – Woodville Assessment Unit

These Admission books contain information about children who were admitted to the Woodville Assessment Unit and Woodville Community Unit. They include the child’s admission number, name, age, date of birth, ‘order’ (possibly reason for admission), their previous placement, discharge date, where they were discharged to, and administrative reference numbers used by the Department. The book…

Adoption Records, State Records of South Australia

State Records of South Australia hold a large quantity of records created by the various departments responsible for child welfare that contain information about adoptions in South Australia. These include Adoption files, adoption index cards, envelopes containing details of relinquishing parents, and a short register of children available for adoption. The records date from 1915…

Records of the Strathmont Centre, State Records of South Australia

The records of the Strathmont Centre held by the State Records of South Australia include registers of residents, inpatient record cards, admission registers for the Strathmont Special School, and employee history cards. These records include basic details about people who were admitted to the Strathmont Centre, including biographical and medical information, however the records about…