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Register of inmates - Home for Incurables, later Julia Farr Centre (GRS/16798)

Calendar Date Range: 1879 - 1991
Read access Public Access: Partially open

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Access Determination

Whole of series: records unrestricted after 60 years, 19-03349. Signed 11/03/2021"

Retention status

Permanent. RDS 2011/27v1: 2.2.1

Description

This series contains registers giving admissions of inmates to the Home for Incurables, later Julia Farr Centre. The Home for Incurables provided residence and support for people suffering from incurable diseases and injuries.

Registers give name, age, date of admission, nature of malady, previous occupation, residence, nationality, religion, years in the colony, name and abode of nearest relative or friend, date of death or cause of discharge. Later volumes also give marital status.

Consignment 2 contains three volumes of office copy registers which record admissions 1 to 6401 (1879 - 1983). The office copies duplicate the entries in the main registers.

See GRS 16802 for alphabetical indexes to admission numbers 1 to 6862 (1879 to 1988).

Arranged chronologically by single admission number, 1 to 8966.

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