VPRS 4527 Ward Register (known as Children's Registers 1864 - 1887)

This series consists of volumes which registered and recorded summary information about children admitted to the care of the State, also known as Wards of the State from 1864 to 1966. The Ward Register was initially made up of large leather bound volumes which recorded double-page entries for each ward including the following information: - Ward Number - Name - Sex - Date of Birth - Native place - Religion - Ability to Read or Write - Date of Commitment - Commiting Bench - Date of Admission - Term - Cause of Commitment - Whether Parents are living - Vaccination details - Previous history - Where stationed - Licensing out details - Discharge details - Half yearly report information. Occasionally a piece of correspondence related to the Ward may be found pasted in their double-page entry. Note that during the nineteenth century, children committed to State care for punishment are identified with the letter ‘R’ for Reformatory [school]. The letters ‘C I S’ or ‘C R S’ identified children placed with government approved privately-run Christian (or Catholic) Industrial or Reformatory schools.

本数据集系列由多卷皮革装帧档案构成，收录了1864年至1966年间被纳入国家监护的儿童（即国家受监护儿童（Wards of the State））的汇总登记信息。该监护登记册最初采用大型皮革装帧卷册形式，为每名受监护儿童设立双页档案条目，包含以下内容：
- 监护编号
- 姓名
- 性别
- 出生日期
- 籍贯
- 宗教信仰
- 读写能力
- 收容日期
- 收容法庭
- 入院日期
- 监护期限
- 收容原因
- 父母是否在世
- 疫苗接种详情
- 既往经历
- 安置地点
- 托管详情
- 出院详情
- 半年度报告信息

偶尔会有与该受监护儿童相关的函件被粘贴至其双页档案条目中。需注意：19世纪期间，因受惩被纳入国家监护的儿童会标注字母"R"，代表感化学校（Reformatory School）。字母"CIS"或"CRS"则用于标识被安置在政府批准的私营基督教（或天主教）实业学校或改造学校的儿童。