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Baby clinic Newtown 1914

Baby clinic Newtown 1914

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State Records New South Wales

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State Records New South Wales

Children

While children have always comprised a substantial proportion of the overall population of Sydney, their voices are absent or muffled in many historical records. State intervention in the lives of European and Indigenous children has been constant in Sydney since the colonial period, but children's daily experiences have also been shaped by their families, cultures and surroundings.

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Newtown

Inner-west suburb which developed along the main road south from Sydney. It became a prosperous shopping district in the late 19th century, and later a working-class and migrant suburb, now gentrified.

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Newtown Baby Clinic

Baby health centre at Australia Street Newtown opposite the fire station, which was originally a branch of the Alice Rawson School for Mothers, a voluntary organisation founded in 1908. The government took over the centres in July 1914 when the Baby Clinic Board was formed.

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