VPRS 18182 Admission and Discharge Register of Residents (Janefield Colony)

This series consists of a volume which records summary information on the admission and discharge of residents from the Janefield Colony (VA 2847).The Register of Residents includes the following information:- Date of Last / Previous Reception (if any)- Number in Order of Reception (by gender) (sequential number)- Date of Reception- Full Name- Gender- Age- Marital Status- Occupation- Previous Place of Abode- By Whose Authority Sent- Dates of Medical Certificates, and by Whom Signed- Form of Mental Disorder- Bodily Condition- Details of Existing Attack- Date of Discharge, Removal or Death- Details of Discharge, Removal or Death- Observations (often used to record religion).The vast majority of the admissions in this register are for girls. It is thought that the Janefield Colony only housed a small number of boys. This changed when the facility was re-purposed as the Janefield Training Centre in 1962.Inside the front cover, there is an extract from the Victoria Government Gazette of 16 May 1945, which proclaims Wards A, B and C and the Farm Workers Block of the Janefield Colony to be a 'mental hospital'.