ACT Heritage Library Manuscript Collection
HMSS 0043 Canberra Mothercraft Society Records
Scope and Content Notes
| Call Number | HMSS 0043 |
| Collection | Canberra Mothercraft Society Records |
| Date Range | 1926-1993 |
| Quantity | 1.75 m (10 Manuscript boxes) |
| Access Conditions | open |
| Copying Conditions | unstated |
| Related Conditions |
The Canberra Mothercraft Society was founded in 1926 (as Women’s and Infants Health society) and emerged as The Canberra Mothercraft Society in February 1927. The Society has played a unique role amongst Canberra’s Health and Welfare Organisations.
Growing up with the National Capital, the Society survived the tough times of the Depression and World War 11. It worked on to reach a peak of responsibility in 1969 when it administered 32 Mothercraft clinics scattered throughout the ACT, 2 Occasional Care Centres at City and Manuka, and the Queen Elizabeth 11 Home for Post Natal Care.
Since 1927, its nursing sisters and other staff have given professional help and reassurance to thousands of mothers, babies and pre-school children, as well as providing one of the major preventative Public Health services in the Territory. The Society pioneered Canberra’s first Home Help service in 1942 and participated in the achievement of the present Emergency Housekeeper Service. That same year it initiated Canberra’s first public Playgroup conducted at Griffith (Manuka Baby Health Centre) and subsequently played a significant role in the formation in 1943 of the Canberra Nursery Kindergarten (later the Canberra Pre-School Society).
Series List
Series 1: Minutes & Constitution etc
Series 2: General Correspondence
Series 3: General Financial Records
Series 4: Miscellaneous, Newsletters, Newspaper Clippings, Reports, Photos, History, Industrial Relations etc
Series 5: Other Societies
Series 6: Occasional Care Centres-Business files
Series 7: Queen Elizabeth II Home-Business files
Series 8: Queen Elizabeth II Home-Miscellaneous
Series 9: Queen Elizabeth II Home-Correspondence
Series 10: Queen Elizabeth II Home-Staffing, Patients Records, etc
Series 11: Queen Elizabeth II Home-Financial Records
Series 12: Queen Elizabeth II Home-Minutes & Reports
Box List
| BOX NO. | SERIES NO. | ITEM NO. | DESCRIPTION | DATE RANGE |
| 1 | MINUTES AND CONSTITUTION |
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| 1 | 1 |
Minute Books-Bound |
1926-1929 | |
| 1 | 1 |
Minute Books-Bound |
1930-1939 |
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| 1 | 1 |
Minute Books-Bound |
1939-1947 |
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| 1 | 1 |
Minute Books-Bound |
1947-1950 |
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| 2 | 1 |
Minute Books-Bound |
1950-1955 |
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| 2 | 1 |
Minute Books-Bound |
1955-1962 |
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| 2 | 1 |
Minute Books-Bound |
1962-1969 |
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| 2 | 1 |
Minute Books-Bound |
1969-1981 |
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| 3 | 1 |
Minutes |
1981-1987 |
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| 4 | 1 | 1 |
Annual General Meeting |
1960-1973 |
| 4 | 1 | 2 |
Annual General Meeting |
1974-1984 |
| 4 | 1 | 3 |
Constitution, leases etc |
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| 4 | 1 | 4 |
Minutes of Council Meetings |
1970-1976 |
| 4 | 1 | 5 |
Minutes of Council Meetings |
1977-1979 |
| 4 | 1 | 6 |
Minutes of Council Meetings |
1990-1993 |
| 4 | 1 | 7 |
Executive Minutes |
1963-1972 |
| 2 | GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE | |||
| 4 | 2 | 8 |
Correspondence |
1940 |
| 4 | 2 | 9 |
Correspondence |
1960 |
| 4 | 2 | 10 |
Correspondence |
1970-1979 |
| 4 | 2 | 11 |
Correspondence |
1986-1993 |
| 3 | GENERAL FINANCIAL RECORDS | |||
| 5 | 3 | 12 |
Financial |
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| 5 | 3 | 13 |
Financial |
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| 5 | 3 | 14 |
Salary Rates |
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| 5 | 3 | 15 |
Wage Sheets |
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| 5 | 3 | 16 |
Wage Sheets |
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| oversized | 3 |
Salaries/allowances books |
1953-1957 |
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| 6 | 3 |
Salaries/allowances books |
1960-1963 |
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| 6 | 3 |
Cash payments books |
1959-1961 |
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| 6 | 3 |
Admissions books |
1963-1966 | |
| 4 |
MISCELLANEOUS Newsletters, newspaper clippings, reports, photos, history, industrial relations, etc. |
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| 7 | 4 | 17 |
History |
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| 7 | 4 | 18 |
Industrial Relations |
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| 7 | 4 | 19 |
Miscellaneous-newsletters, pamphlets etc |
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| 7 | 4 | 20 | ACT Health-various reports, submissions, studies, strategic plans |
1975-1992 |
| 7 | 4 | 21 |
Obstetrics-working party on proposed Unit/Birthing Centre at Woden Valley Hospital |
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| 5 | OTHER SOCIETIES | |||
| 7 | 5 | 22 |
Canberra Pre-School Society/ Australian Early Childhood Society, correspondence, minutes, constitution, standards |
1965-1992 |
| 7 | 5 | 23 |
Canberra Women’s and Children Welfare Association-correspondence |
1926 |
| 7 | 5 |
Women’s and Children’s Health Society Federal Capital Territory-Eastlake Branch-minutes |
1926-1928 | |
| 6 | OCCASIONAL CARE CENTERS - BUSINESS FILES | |||
| 8 | 6 | 24 |
Correspondence |
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| 8 | 6 | 25 |
Inventory |
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| 8 | 6 | 26 |
Miscellaneous |
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| 8 | 6 | 27 |
Monthly reports |
1972/73 |
| 8 | 6 |
Occasional Care Advisory Committee-Minutes |
1951-1958 |
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| 8 | 6 |
Occasional Care Advisory Committee-Minutes |
1958-1966 |
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| 8 | 6 |
Occasional Care Advisory Committee-Minutes |
1966-1973 |
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| 8 | 6 |
Photographs of Civic & Manuka Occasional Care Centres |
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| 8 | QUEEN ELIZABETH II HOME - MISCELLANEOUS | |||
| 8 | 8 | 28 |
Functional brief |
1973 |
| 8 | 8 | 29 |
Miscellaneous including reviews, surveys |
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| QUEEN ELIZABETH II HOME - CORRESPONDENCE | ||||
| 8 | 9 | 30 |
Correspondence |
1963-1969 |
| 8 | 9 | 31 |
Correspondence |
1969-1980 |
| 8 | 9 | 32 |
Correspondence |
1981-1994 |
| 9 | 9 | 33 |
Correspondence Director of Nursing |
1962-1993 |
| 10 | QUEEN ELIZABETH II HOME - STAFFING, PATIENTS, RECORDS ETC. | |||
| 9 | 10 | 34 | Patient activity/ staffing |
1987-1988 |
| 9 | 10 | 35 | Employee records | |
| 9 | 10 | 36 |
Social Welfare |
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| 11 | QUEEN ELIZABETH II HOME - FINANCIAL RECORDS | |||
| 9 | 11 | 37 | Budget Estimates | 1971-1994 |
| 9 | 11 | 38 |
Building plans/quotations |
1980-1986 |
| 12 | QUEEN ELIZABETH II HOME - MINUTES, REPORTS | |||
| 9 | 12 | 39 | Monthly reports/ planning/ working party meetings 1991- annual report |
1991 |
| 10 | 12 |
Sub-committee minutes |
1963-1969 |
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| 10 | 12 |
Sub-committee minutes |
1969-1976 | |
| 10 | 12 |
Sub-committee minutes |
1977-1981 |