NRS-4935 | Correspondence files [Southern Metropolitan Regional Office]

Full description

These files include: submissions for grants of monies from community groups, such as Right to Life and the Sea Horse Club; statistical returns; the purchase of new or major pieces of medical equipment and related technology; internal and hospital newsletters; the Medicare dispute between 1974-75; research data; health inspectors' reports on hospitals; press releases; correspondence concerning alterations to the Prison Medical Service as a result of the Nagle Royal Commission; the proposed utilisation of gases produced at the Malabar Sewerage Treatment plant as an energy source for the boiler system at Prince Henry Hospital; and assistance given to Darwin evacuees after Cyclone Tracy.

The Southern Metropolitan Regional Office also assumed responsibility for the area previously administered by the Inner Metropolitan Regional Office after the latter was abolished in 1983. The majority of the Inner Metropolitan files were re-registered under the Southern Metropolitan correspondence system. However, a number of files from both Offices retained their original file numbers.

Files registered with a "SM" prefix have been integrated with the other Regional Office files.

The Southern Metropolitan Regional Office was closed during 1988.

(12/13042-133). 92 boxes.

Note:
This description is extracted from Concise Guide to the State Archives of New South Wales, 3rd Edition 2000.