Hawkesbury Benevolent Society and Hospital records, 1840-1979

MLMSS 5285/Boxes 1-10
MLMSS 5285/Items 11X-27X

fonds

1840-1979

890225

3.20 metres of textual material (10 boxes and 17 outsize items)

The Hawkesbury Benevolent Society and Hospital at Windsor was established on 31 December 1818 by the residents of Hawkesbury at a meeting presided by William Cox. Its aim was to assist the infirm and old amongst the free and emancipated colonist of the district.

General Lachlan Macquarie granted the society land for cattle and in 1819 a herd was acquired which became the society's chief source of income for forty-five years. Other sources of income were donations, subscriptions, church collections and fines from the Police Offices. The society generally supplied food and clothing for the poor. In 1832 an asylum for the poor was established in a house and in 1836 a building was erected for that purpose.

In 1846 the society acquired the premises of the convict Hospital at Windsor. The society could now provide a refuge for the poor and hospitalization for the sick poor on the one premises. The society also dispensed charity in the form of food, clothing, shelter and medical treatment.

The society was called the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society and Asylum. In 1903 the society changed its name to the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society and Hospital. In 1936 the Hospitals Commission of New South Wales acquired supervision of the society as a public hospital under the Public Hospitals Act 1929.

BOXES 1-2
Committee of Management - Minute Books, 1871-1938

BOXES 3-5
Board of Directors - Minute books, 1938-1977

BOX 6
Minute books, 1937-1969

Board of Directors and Finance Committee - Attendances of Meetings book, 1949-1964

BOX 7
Letter books, 1852-1911

BOX 8
Patients Register, 1849-1969

BOX 9
Out Door Paupers Relief Register
Register, 1871-1888

Outpatients Register and Record of Files dealt with Register
Outpatients 1971-1979 and Files 1975-1978

Nurses Register, 1934-1952

Subscriber Registers and Lists of Life Members Registers
Register, 1930-1944
Register, 1943-1947

BOX 10
Post-Mortem Registers
Register 1957-1962
Register 1962-1965
Register 1965-1968

Cattle Returns Register
Register 1840-1856

Visitors Book
Book 1911-1954 (includes signature of Sir John Northcott, Governor of N.S.W., 1952 and other notables


X ITEMS
ADMISSIONS AND DISCHARGES REGISTERS
(sometimes includes the Daily Record of Numbers Registers, Provisions Registers and Accounts Registers)

Registers 1880-1882 (including the Daily Record of Numbers Register, 1880-1901, Provisions Register, 1880-1888 and Accounts, Register, 1880-1883) - 1X

Register 1882-1889 - 2X

Registers 1888-1906 (including the Daily Record of Numbers Register, 1893-1905 and Provisions Register, 1888-1892) - 3X

Registers 1890-1912 (including the Daily Record of Numbers Register, 1906-1907 and Provisions Register, 1890-1892 and Accounts Register, 1883-1888) - 4X

Registers 1893-1906 (including the Daily Record of Numbers Register, 1893-1906 and Provisions Register, 1893-1896) - 5X

Registers 1896-1902 (including the Daily Record of Numbers Register, 1896-1901 and Provisions Register, 1896-1898) - 6X

Registers 1911-1920 (including the Daily Record of Numbers Register, 1911-1920) - 7X

Registers 1920-1924 (including the Daily Record of Numbers Register, 1920-1924) - 8X

Register 1927-1932 - 9X

Provision Registers
Register, 1868-1975 - 10X
Register, 1876-1912 - 11X

Daily Record of Numbers Registers
Register 1935-1940 - 12X
Register 1940-1945 - 13X

Salaries and Wages Registers
Register 1940-1944 - 14X
Register 1944-1948 - 15X

Cash Register, 1910-1920 - 16X

Visitors Book - 17X

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