NRS-19708 | Admission and discharge registers [Brush Farm Home, Eastwood]

Full description

The volumes in this series comprise admission and discharge registers for Brush Farm Home at Eastwood. Details recorded include date of admission, name, age (date of birth from March 1967 onwards), religion, from whom received and address, admission remarks (e.g. birth date or IQ [Intelligence Quotient]), date of discharge, to whom discharged and address, how placed, and discharge remarks (e.g. holiday leave). There is an index in the front of the second volume, covering residents admitted after 1966.

The registers contain a number of sequences. Each sequence begins by listing residents still in the home who were admitted prior to that date. New admissions follow until a new sequence is commenced. The format consists of double page entries arranged chronologically by admission date, with one page recording admissions to the facility and the facing page recording discharges. Each line provides the details of an individual resident, so their admission and discharge details are on the same line.

The first volume was commenced in April 1944 (but records admissions dating back to 1922) and new sequences were subsequently started in September 1946, May 1948, July 1950, February 1956 and March 1959. The second volume was commenced in August 1966 and runs through to October 1987 in a single sequence.

Although the home generally only catered for girls under the age of eighteen (and boys younger than ten from January 1977) the registers show that two residents admitted in the early years of the facility (1922 and 1923), one at the age of 24 when admitted, appear to have lived in the home until their deaths in the 1980s.

This series also covers the years during which the Admission register (3 October 1978-20 August 1980) and Discharge registers (4 November 1976-17 August 1980) were kept. Not all residents listed in the Admission register are listed in the Admission and discharge register. Some of those not listed in the Admission and discharge register are recorded in the Admission register as overnight stays.