VPRS 4980 Registers Of Deaths, Infant Life Protection

Full description

This series records information about the deaths of children who had been placed in the Infant Life Protection Scheme. Children placed under this scheme were not made wards of the State.

For each death, these volumes record the following information:

- infant life welfare protection registration number
- name of the deceased and their dates of birth and death (information about the child's parents is not recorded)
- cause of death
- date the infant was placed in a home (replaced during 1933 with date placed with nurse), and
- an indication as to whether a coronial inquiry or inquest was held. (Judging from these registers, inquests were rarely held.)

The P1 consignment of this series was previously registered as a separate series, VPRS 5063.

Prior to the inclusion of VPRS 5063 during 2014, this particular series (i.e VPRS 4980) had erroneously been titled Deaths In Children's homes. Additionally, both VPRS 4980 and 5063 had been erroroneously thought to document the deaths of State wards.