VPRS 14837 Card Index to General Correspondence Files (General Health Branch ?1944-1978; Public Health Division 1978-1985) [RECORDS NOT TRANSFERRED]

Full description

This series consists of a card index, maintained in flat drawers within metal cabinets, created between the period:

- ? 1944-1978 by the General Health Branch of the Department of Health I (VA 695)
- 1978-1985 by the Public Health Division of the Health Commission of Victoria (VA 652), and
- 1985-1986 by the Department of Health II (VA 2695).

The index was specifically created and used to index and to track the movement of files which comprise VPRS 14836. A card was created for each file in that series and records the file number and file title allocated and details of file movements between officers of the Department. This index appears to cover all of the files created in VPRS 14836.

Use of these cards was discontinued in 1986 when the Department of Health II combined VPRS 14836 with both the general correspondence (VPRS 14831) and Executive files (VPRS 14832) created by the central registry of the Department and previous Commission's Central Administration Division. At this time, the Department selected a number of files from VPRS 14836 which were considered to be required for future reference/action and `top numbered' (i.e allocated new file numbers from) the new series. The new file number for these files have also been recorded on the relevant cards of this index.