Ashfield Infants Home
Location
Ashfield
NSW Australia
Provider
Date Opened
Date Closed
Location
17 Henry Street
Ashfield NSW
Australia
Provider: NSW Government
Year Opened: 1877
Year Closed: Present
The Infants’ Home, Ashfield was established in Henry Street, Ashfield in 1877. It was a lying-in hospital and pioneered the practice of keeping mothers and babies together after the birth, and helping mothers find work. It also cared for babies without their mothers. It stopped providing residential care in 1972, instead to deliver a range of child and family health and welfare programmes.
For further information about this Home, please refer to: Connecting Kin: Guide to Records.
Incorporated by Act of Parliament 1924 and partly state funded. AKA The Infants’ Home, Ashfield; The Infant; Ashfield Babies Home. Tel. 02 9799 4844 Fax 02 9799 4122
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CLAN library books (where this Home is mentioned)
- A Square deal for the Nations Children
- Betrayed and Forsaken by Susan Lorne-Johnson