VPRS 4980 Registers Of Deaths, Infant Life Protection

This series records information about the deaths of children who had been placed in the Infant Life Protection Scheme. Children placed under this scheme were not made wards of the State.For each death, these volumes record the following information:- infant life welfare protection registration number- name of the deceased and their dates of birth and death (information about the child's parents is not recorded)- cause of death- date the infant was placed in a home (replaced during 1933 with date placed with nurse), and- an indication as to whether a coronial inquiry or inquest was held. (Judging from these registers, inquests were rarely held.)The P1 consignment of this series was previously registered as a separate series, VPRS 5063.Prior to the inclusion of VPRS 5063 during 2014, this particular series (i.e VPRS 4980) had erroneously been titled Deaths In Children's homes. Additionally, both VPRS 4980 and 5063 had been erroroneously thought to document the deaths of State wards.

本系列档案记录了纳入婴儿生命保护计划（Infant Life Protection Scheme）的儿童的死亡信息。根据该计划安置的儿童，并未被确立为国家受监护人。针对每一例死亡事件，本卷册收录如下信息：- 婴儿生命福利保护登记编号；- 逝者姓名、出生日期与死亡日期（未记录儿童父母的相关信息）；- 死亡原因；- 婴儿被安置至寄养家庭的日期（1933年起该项被替换为"婴儿被托付给护理人员的日期"）；- 是否进行过死因裁判官调查或验尸的标注（根据本登记册可知，验尸程序极少开展）。本系列的P1批次此前曾被登记为独立档案系列VPRS 5063。在2014年将VPRS 5063并入本系列之前，VPRS 4980这一特定档案系列曾被错误命名为《儿童家庭死亡事件》。此外，VPRS 4980与VPRS 5063也曾被错误地认为是用于记录国家受监护人死亡情况的档案。