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Series No. 26
Series Title  INDEX CARDS - INMATE FILES
Start Date  1 Jan 1918
End Date  1 Jan 1955
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Series Description  These records comprise 'inmates' cards which list the names of individuals admitted to the Old Men's Home/Sunset Home (Nedlands) and the Old Women's Home. Against each person's name, the cards record an inmate file number. The year of the file number provides an indication of the year each individual was admitted to the home/s. It is however believed that the inmate files to which the cards refer no longer exist. The cards contain no other information about the inmates.

More complete admission/discharge information for the Old Men's Home/Sunset Home may be found in the records listed at Record Series 1930 (Admission and Discharge Cards), 2525 (Admission and Discharge Registers), 2526 (Admission Registers) and 2527 (Discharge/Death Registers). It should however be noted that the Index Cards record some names of individuals which to which there is no existing Admission Cards, particularly for the period prior to the 1940's. It is possible that the Admission Cards are incomplete and as such, the Index Cards may be useful for confirming that an individual was admitted to the Old Men's Home/Old Women's Home as far back as 1918. No further records recording patient admission information for the Old Men's Home for the period 1906 (when the Home was established) to 1918 are believed to exist.

The cards in this series comprise two sets: one for males admitted to the Old Men's Home/Sunset Home (Nedlands) and one for females admitted to the "Old Women's Home". As women were not admitted to Sunset Home until 1965 and the cards refer to female admissions as far back as 1918, it is not entirely certain which Old Women's Home is being referred to, although it is probable that it is the Home that was located in Fremantle (the former Fremantle Asylum).

Original Format  Cards
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Arrangement  Alphabetical
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Series Access Status  Open Access
 
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Preceding Series 
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Succeeding Series 
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Related Series 
1930 ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE CARDS 1 Jan 1918 ~ 1 Jan 1955   Detail
2525 ADMISSION AND DISCHARGE REGISTERS 1 Jan 1935 ~ 1 Jan 1955   Detail
2526 ADMISSION REGISTERS 1 Jan 1945 ~ 1 Jan 1955   Detail
 
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Controlled Series 
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Activities documented by this series 
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Agencies creating this series 
35 PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA -  Detail
 
Record Items in this series 
01 Inmates-women's homes A-Z 1 Jan 1918 ~ 31 Dec 1955   Detail
02 Inmates men's homes A-Z 1 Jan 1918 ~ 31 Dec 1955   Detail

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