Other relevant records online
- 1869-1898 Register of children admitted to the following institutions who had a government allowance (SWD37/1/1 and SWD37/1/2)
- Boys’ Home Lansdowne Crescent Hobart
- Girls’ Industrial School Trinity Hill
- Hobart Training School for Females
- Girls’ Launceston Female Industrial School
- St Joseph’s Orphanage
- 1871 House of Assembly Paper, “Charitable Institutions”, Report of Royal Commission
- 1873-1897 Register of Tasmanian incapacitated persons maintained by institutions in other colonies in Australia
- 1874-1884 Register of paupers sent from Hamilton to the General Hospital and Invalid Depot (POL302/1/1)
- 1876 Return of and applications for paupers to be admitted to charitable institutions (SWD38)
- 1879-1886 Register of boarded out children who have been sent to service (SWD10)
- 1879-1886 Register of persons receiving compassionate allowances who have to make repayments (SWD42)
- 1881-1894 Register of applications from individuals to become foster parents (SWD44)
- 1881-1895 Register of applications for apprentices (SWD34)
- 1887-1954 Correspondence about the custody and welfare of children (SWD1)
- 1890-1894 Register of admissions to the Lying-in Hospital, Cascades (SWD39)
- 1914-1929 Alphabetical register of admissions to the Boys’ Training School, and New Town Infirmary and Consumptive Home (HSD274/1/1). While the latter continued to 1934, digitisation is to 1929 only. The Institution later became the New Town Rest Home, then St John’s Park Hospital.
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