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Joseph Coulter, Superintendent of the Randwick ...

Joseph Coulter, Superintendent of the Randwick Asylum 1890

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State Library of New South Wales

(Illustrated Sydney News, 17 April 1890, p 17)

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Children's institutions in nineteenth-century Sydney

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Benevolent asylums Child services

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Society for the Relief of Destitute Children

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Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children

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Children's institutions in nineteenth-century Sydney

Concern about neglected and destitute children led to the formation of several different kinds of institutions to feed, house, train and sometimes care for them.

Benevolent asylums

Child services

Society for the Relief of Destitute Children

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Society formed by members of the Benevolent Society to raise funds for and manage an asylum for destitute children who were not eligible for the orphan schools. It aimed to be self-sufficient when it moved to Randwick and the site included a farm where the boys learnt farming skills. The children received a basic education andmany of the boys and girls became apprenticed to the Institution when they reached 12.

Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children

Large sandstone asylum for 400 children built on 60 acres at High Cross Randwick by the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children. A new wing built in 1863 housed a further 400 children. During World War I it was used as a military hospital for wounded and disabled returned servicemen.

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