NRS-19728 | Admission and discharge register [Brush Farm Infants Home, Eastwood]

This volume records details of admissions and discharges from Brush Farm Infants Home, which was opened in the grounds of Brush Farm Home, Eastwood, in November 1968. From August 1980 it became a home for the temporary residential care of disabled children, mainly for respite care.The format of the register consists of double page entries arranged chronologically by admission date, with one page recording admissions to the facility and the facing page recording discharges. Each line provides the details of an individual resident, so their admission and discharge details are on the same line.Details recorded in the register vary over time. The initial entries record date of admission, name, date of birth, religion, from whom received and address (e.g. parents, or another facility), admission remarks (e.g. temporary care), date of discharge, to whom discharged and address, how placed, and discharge remarks (e.g. medical notes). Although the register retains these column headings throughout, over time these were either manually changed, or the details recorded do not reflect the column headings.Later entries retain date of admission, name, date of birth, from who received and address, date of discharge, and to whom discharged. Additional information added over time includes age, whether the resident was male or female, who referred them (e.g. school, doctor), the reason temporary care was provided (e.g. single working parent, parents holidaying, parents spending time with other children) plus reason code, number of days spent in the home, whether or not the visit was a first placement, whether other disabilities were present, and the geographical region from which the resident came and to where they went after the visit.Statistics relating to the number of admissions and discharges are also periodically recorded from August 1980 onwards. An index of the entries was begun in the back of the book, but these only cover the period from August to September 1980.

本卷宗记录了布拉什农场婴儿院（Brush Farm Infants Home）的入院与出院详情，该院于1968年11月在伊斯特伍德（Eastwood）的布拉什农场福利院（Brush Farm Home）园区内开办。1980年8月起，该院转型为残疾儿童临时寄宿照料机构，主要提供喘息式照料（respite care）服务。本登记册采用双页条目形式，按入院日期先后顺序排列，其中一页记录机构入院信息，对页记录出院信息。每位居民的信息独占一行，因此其入院与出院详情位于同一行。登记册所记录的内容随时间推移存在差异。早期条目包含入院日期、姓名、出生日期、宗教信仰、转介来源及地址（如父母或其他机构）、入院备注（如临时照料）、出院日期、接收方及地址、安置方式及出院备注（如医疗记录）。尽管登记册全程保留了上述栏目标题，但随着时间推移，这些标题要么被手动修改，要么所记录的实际内容与栏目标题并不匹配。后续条目仅保留入院日期、姓名、出生日期、转介来源及地址、出院日期以及接收方信息。后续新增的信息还包括：年龄、居民性别、转介方（如学校、医生）、临时照料的原因（如单亲在职父母、父母度假、父母需照料其他子女）及原因代码、在院时长、是否为首次安置、是否存在其他残疾，以及居民来源地和出院后去向的地理区域。自1980年8月起，登记册还会定期记录入院与出院人次的统计数据。此外，登记册末尾已开始编制条目索引，但该索引仅涵盖1980年8月至9月的内容。