Benevolent Society of New South Wales - Records, 1813-1995

MLMSS 6091/Items 1X-6X, 7X-10X (1 box), 11X-31X
MLMSS 6091/Items 32-355

sub-fonds

1813-1995

153761

Microfilm : List of Honorary Medical Officers, 1894-1943, Royal Hospital for Women).

75 metres of textual material (232 boxes, 123 volumes and 31 outsize items)

Minutes of the various committees: House Committee, Finance Committee, Royal Hospital for Women Committee, Conjoint Board, Medical Advisory Committee, Medical Appointments Advisory Committee, the Scarba Committee, Annual General Meetings, Miscellaneous Sub-committees, the Renwick Committee, Sub-committees, 1863-1981.

Business papers and Agenda books, 1878-1968.

Record of Centenary Celebration, May 1913.

Acts, by-laws, rules and regulations, 1902-1976.

Registers: General staff, 1887-1938, Life Governors, 1890-1971, Bequests, legacies and mortgage loans, 1895-1968, Special appeals, 1932, Subscriptions, Jan. 1937-Dec. 1940, Public contributions and endowments, Jul. 1959-Feb. 1966, Assets, ca. 1902-ca. 1958, Gas and electricity consumption, Aug. 1937-Nov. 1946.

Financial records: Salaries and wages books, 1881-1886, 1930-1941, Ledgers of income and expenditure, 1903-1952, Financial statements, 1905-1916, 1918, 1921, 1930-1950, Stores books, 1930-1933, 1936-1943.

Newscuttings, 1919-1988.

Inmates and Patients records: Index to Admissions and Discharges, 1932-1937, Obstetrics journals: form for admission of waiting patients, 1909-1914, "Pupils book" 1885-1897.

Royal Hospital for Women: Certificates of Nursing, Renwick Hospital for Infants and Royal Hospital for Women, 1904-1906, 196?-1962, Medical and clinical reports, 1917, 1937-1949, 1966-1968, Information booklets and promotional pamphlets, 1922-1929, after 1949, Invitations and programs, 1929, 1941, 1976-1989, Patient registration cards, after 1929, List of Honorary Medical Officers, 1894-1989, Rules and regulations, Aug. 1938, Minutes of the Honorary Medical Staff, 1939-1949, 1955-1960, Minutes of the Senior Medical Staff Committee and Sub-committees, 1961-1991

Renwick Hospital for Infants: Register of baptisms, 1902-1964, Post mortem register, June 1957-Jan. 1965, Register of surgical operations, Mar. 1962-Mar. 1965, "Infants Hospital History Book" ca. Feb. 1911, Patients' medical records, 1937, 1955-1956, Visitors' books, Aug. 1911-Nov. 1916, President's report ca. Sept. 1918-Oct. 1918, Matron's diaries, 1918-1927, Commemorative photograph album, Nov. 1921, Minutes of the Honorary Medical Staff, 1939-1964.

Scarba House: Matron's diary, Mar. 1964-Apr. 1969, Sister's day and night report books, 1966-1971, Daily report books, 1970-1974, Doctor's report books, 1969-1972, Scarba House index, 1965-1968, 1972-1974, Scarba House register, Jan. 1965-Jan. 1970, Admissions register, Apr. 1969-Jan. 1971, Refused admissions book, Mar. 1968-Sept. 1972, "Scarba" statistics - daily record book, May 1967-Sept. 1973, Payment register, 1970-1971, Visitors' book, 1969-1972, Register of voluntary workers, Nov. 1969-Aug. 1971, "Scarba House for Children, Memorial gifts", 1923-1959, Receipt book, Dec. 1965-Apr. 1967, Maurice O'Sullivan Day Care Centre, House rules.

Community and welfare services: "Christmas parcels", Jan. 1968-Nov. 1972, "Vouchers for cheques", Mar. 1969-Jul. 1971, "Food relief vouchers", June 1968-Apr. 1971, Samaritan Fund forms, Jan. 1969-ca. May 1971, "Unmarried mothers survey", June 1968-Sept. 1968, Social Workers' case files closed cases, 1968-1971, Director of Welfare Services files, 1969, 1976-1979, 1980-1983, Senior Citizens exit files, 1982.

Secretary's correpondence and subject files: Alphabetical index to correspondents, 1932-1959, and 1963-1965, Subject index to correspondents, 1961, 1963, 1965-1966, "Index to files", Jul. 1966, Secretary's corresponcence, 1844-1847, Secretary's correspondence and subject files, 1936-1982.

Restricted - This collection contains confidential, personal and/or culturally sensitive information: Boxes 41, 41a, 43, 44, 50-53, 58, 59 are only issued to authorised staff of The Benevolent Society. For the rest of the collection written authority is required from The Benevolent Society prior to access. Please contact The Archivist, The Benevolent Society, 2E Wentworth Park Rd, Glebe 2037; website https://www.benevolent.org.au/contact-us/general-enquiries/; phone 1800 236762. The Library requires readers who have received permission from the Benevolent Society to sign an ‘Undertaking with regard to access’ for this collection to protect the privacy of individuals. This form will be supplied to you prior to access. Guidelines for accessing sensitive collections.

The records are described in the publication 'Guide to the Records of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales, 1813-1995, in the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW'. The guide (140 pages) may be consulted in the Mitchell Library Reading Room; it is also available for purchase by contacting The Benevolent Society. Note that, since publication of the guide, some restricted items have been transferred from Boxes 42, 45 and 56 to new Box 41a; the Reading Room copy of the guide is annotated to reflect this.

See also other Benevolent Society of NSW records (minutes, inmate journals, admissions & discharges registers with indexes) at A 7153 - A 7272 and *D 561 - *D 582. These records are included in the guide mentioned above. Many of the volumes in these series of records have been copied onto preservation microfilm.