SA Link-Up
Resources includes Finding Your Own Way. An Online directory to
childrens homes and institution records in South Australia.
State Records
of South Australia offers online name searching using
ArchivesSearch . Records available include ledgers of
children boarded out (1862-1913); registers of admissions to the Industrial
School (1886-1922) and (1884-1893).
Tasmania
LINC Tasmania - Digital Tasmania is a project to
digitise Tasmania's archival and heritage collections. A significant amount of
material has been digitised and is available online for free. Original
records include:
Launceston Benevolent Asylum - Register of
Admissions and Discharges (1898-1915)
Launceston Benevolent Asylum
- Report book of inspector on cases for which aid from Society had been
sought, with index. (1
869-1878)
Cascades Female
Factory Historic Site, Register of Boys (1884-1896) from the Boys' Training School (Reformatory) which operated
at Cascades (Tas) 1869-1879 and 1884-1896.
Victoria
Public Record Office
Victoria, Mental Health digitised records include asylum
records for: Ararat, Ballarat, Ballart/Sunbury, Beechworth, Bendigo receiving
ward, Collingwood, Kew, Royal Park Hospital, Sunnyside Licensed House and Yarra
Bend. A digitised copy of the Alphabetical Lists of Patients in Asylums
1849-1885 is also available.
Public
Record Office of Victoria online guides include:
PROV Guide 59 -
Mental Health Records
PROV Guide 60 - Adoption, Wardship and Related Records
State Library of Victoria's Databases
Online include the Darragh Index to the Melbourne German Sick and
Relief Society membership 1861-1924. This Society also known as Deutscher
Krankenverein, was founded in 1861. It provided sickness and death benefits to
members and also supported members and others who were needy or out of
work.
Pathways is a resource for people who as children were
in out-of-home 'care' in Victoria, including people known as 'care' leavers,
Forgotten Australians, foster children, wards of the state, adopted children,
'Homies', child migrants, and members of the Stolen Generations. Use this
site to find information, including documents and images,
about institutions, organisations that managed children's
institutions, policies, public figures and legislation. There is
no personal information available.
Western Australia
State Records Office of
Western Australia collection guide Hospitals and Health Records
covers Mental Health Institutions.
Hospitals
New South
Wales
State
Records of New South Wales online guides include:
Archives In Brief 88 - Crown Street
Women's Hospital.
Queensland
Queensland State
Archives online indexes include:
Brisbane Hospital Registers of
Deaths 1899-1913
Brisbane Hospital Admission Registers
1872-1887
Consumptive Patients 1897-1902
Mackay Hospital
Admissions 1891-1908
Judy Webster's Genealogy Advice for
Australia, especially Queensland. This site contains a
variety of online name indexes to Queensland Records including hospital
admission registers.
Moreton Bay and Peel Island History by Peter
Ludlow. This site features local history information for Moreton Bay
including Peel Island's Quarantine and Leprosy Stations.
Deaths at Toowoomba
Hospital 1889. Compiled by T Foenander
from lists published in the Darling Downs
Gazette. The Links section at the bottom of the page takes you to
similar lists for 1890, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1906 and
1908.
Tasmania
LINC
Tasmania - Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office - online guides include:
Brief guide 001
- Patient records, Royal Derwent Hospital.
LINC Tasmania - Digital Tasmania is a project to
digitise Tasmania's archival and heritage collections. A significant amount of
material has been digitised and is available online for free. Original records
include:
Launceston General Hospital - Nurses' register of
training and employment, (1891-1912)
Royal Derwent Hospital -
Alphabetical monthly register of patients and attendants, with details of
diet (1841-1842)
Victoria
Indexes to Deaths in the
Melbourne Hospital (1867-1880); Alfred Hospital and Melbourne Benevolent Asylum
(1872-1877) by T Foenander. Includes name, age at death,
native place, ship of arrival and death details. These indexes were compiled
from lists published in the Argus newspaper.
Deaths at Alfred Hospital
and Melbourne Benevolent Asylum (1872-1879) by T Foenander. Includes name, age at death, native place, ship
of arrival and death details. These indexes were compiled from lists published
in the Argus newspaper.
Index to Royal Women's Hospital (formerly Melbourne
Lying-In Hospital ) Midwifery Book no 1 (1856-1876).
This index
facilitates access to the Royal Women's Hospital (Victoria) digitised Midwifery
Book (1856-1876) which is freely available
on The Royal
Womens Hospital
site.
Western Australia
State
Records Office of Western Australia collection guide Hospitals and
Health Records
covers Hospital Records, Mental Health Institutions, Doctors and
Nurses, Dentists, Local Boards of Health, Royal Commissions of
Inquiry, Other Health Related Records plus further information.
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