VPRS 4523 "Closed" Agency and General Correspondence Files

This series consists of a filing system which was created to store files which had been removed from series created by either the Charities Board of Victoria and/or its successors the Hospitals and Charities Commission and the Hospitals Division of the Health Commission. On their removal, files were allocated a new file number and were regarded as "closed".Files in this system were originally created within at least 5 different series. These are:- a series of general correspondence files arranged alphabetically by title created by the Hospitals and Charities Board between c. 1923 - 1948. (No files from this alphabetical series are known to exist although a number of files have been incorporated into either this series, VPRS 14846 or VPRS 14848.)- VPRS 14844 Agency Files (single number)- VPRS 14845 Agency Files (Multiple Number)- VPRS 14848 General Correspondence Files (Multiple Nmber), and- VPRS 14847 General Correspondence Files (Annual Single Number).(Please refer to the series registrations for these series for a description of the function and contents of these files.)Judging from the contents of files, it would appear that the first files were created within this system in 1936. File numbers appear to have continued to be allocated until 1986 but this is subject to further investigation.The P2 consignment of this series also contains a number of files from the other series identified above which were not renumbered. The following unit ranges will eventually all be reprocessed as new consignments of the following series;- VPRS 4523/P2, units 614 to 819 will be re-processed as a consignment of VPRS 14844- VPRS 4523/P2, units 820 to 943 will be reprocessed as a consignment of VPRS 14845- VPRS 4523/P2, units 944 to 971 will be reprocessed as a consignment of VPRS 14846- VPRS 4523/P2, units 972 to 995 will be reprocessed as a consignment of VPRS 14848, and- VPRS 4523/P2, units 996 to 1077 will be reprocessed as a consignment of VPRS 14847.