This series contains a volume that records details about patients admitted to the Northfield Consumptive Home, later the Morris Hospital. Information varies between patients, but generally includes name, date of admission, admission number, patient’s address, next of kin, age, religion, place of birth, length of residence in South Australia, occupation, doctor, duration of illness, where…
The Northfield Consumptive Home was opened in 1931 at Northfield to replace the Adelaide Hospital’s Consumptive Home on North Terrace. The Northfield Consumptive Home provided treatment to patients with advanced tuberculosis and cancer. These patients may have included children. It had beds for 112 patients. In 1936 the Northfield Consumptive Home was re-named the Morris…
The Morris Hospital was the name given to the former Northfield Consumptive Home at Northfield in 1936. Run by a board of management it provided treatment for patients, including children, suffering from tuberculosis and cancer. The hospital was taken over by the Department of Defence during World War II. It resumed caring for civilian patients…
The Northfield Wards of the Royal Adelaide Hospital was the name given to the former Northfield Infectious Diseases Hospital in 1948. Originally established to care for and isolate people suffering from infectious diseases, including polio and tuberculosis, the Northfield Wards began to admit patients with other ailments from the 1950s. Both children and adults were…
The Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) was the new name given to the Adelaide Hospital in 1939. It was located on North Terrace in Adelaide and was run by a board of management. From 1941 Northcote Home operated in conjunction with the RAH. From 1948 the Royal Adelaide Hospital ran the Northfield Wards of the Royal…
This series consists of registers of patients admitted to the Northfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, later the Northfield Wards of the Royal Adelaide Hospital. It includes basic information about people who were patients at the hospital, including name, date of admission and discharge, sex, age, occupation, marital status, contact details for family/friends, doctor, and destination on…
The Northfield Infectious Diseases Hospital was opened in 1932 at Northfield. It was run by a board of management to care for and isolate people suffering from infectious diseases including influenza, scarlet fever, diphtheria, poliomyelitis and tuberculosis (also known as TB or consumption). Both children and adults were patients at the Hospital. In 1948 the…
The City Archives of the Adelaide City Council was established in 1978. The documentary heritage of the City is preserved in the Archives, Civic Collection, and Oral History collections. The Archives holds about 5,000 shelf metres of records and these exist in a wide variety of physical formats: volumes, files, documents, photographs, maps, plans, microfilms,…
The Series was held by State Records of South Australia under the title ‘Kalyra sanatorium fund register of patients’ with the reference number MRG50/46. The volume was returned to the Adelaide City Archives. Access Conditions For access to records held by the Adelaide City Archives please contact the Archives Officer. Public access to records less…
Adelaide Central Mission came into being in 1977, with the establishment of the Uniting Church in Australia. Previously, it was known as the Adelaide Central Methodist Mission. In 2003, its name changed to UnitingCare Wesley Adelaide Inc, when Adelaide Central Mission joined a Partnership in Mission along with Port Adelaide Central Mission, UnitingCare Port Pirie…
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