Agency:
Launceston Home for Invalids
Agency Number:
Start Date:
31 May 1913
End Date:
10 Mar 1954
Description:
In 1868, The Launceston Invalid Asylum or Invalid Depot was established by refurbishing the old Military Barracks in Patterson Street near Royal Park. Principally, its inmates were destitute male emancipists with chronic medical conditions resulting from congenital defects, injury, disease or old age. For its first twenty years it was administered by the Superintendent of the Launceston Penal Establishment and was effectively a regimented penal environment. From 1895 the Launceston Benevolent Society managed the Invalid Depot as the renamed Launceston Benevolent Asylum. The old building became run down and finally closed on 24 June 1912. A new premises, the Launceston Home for Invalids in Mulgrave Street, South Launceston was built and operated by the Tasmanian Government and ran from May 1913 until 10 March 1954 when it was replaced by Cosgrove Park Home for the Aged on Wellington Street, Launceston also operated by the state government. As part of the overall state government strategy to transfer public nursing home beds to the private sector the Cosgrove Park Nursing Home as it was by then known was sold to the privately operated consortium Tasmania Nursing Homes in January 1993.
Information Sources:
'Launceston Invalid Asylum', A. Piper in The Companion to Tasmanian History (CTHS, Hobart 2008);;;;'Launceston Home for Invalids: Report for 1911-12', Journals & Printed Papers of the Parliament of Tasmania, Vol. LXVII (1912)
Controlling Agencies:
Department of Public Health (TA19) | 06 Jan 1904 | 01 Aug 1956 |
Previous Agencies:
Launceston Benevolent Asylum (NG1172) | 01 Jan 1898 | 30 Apr 1915 |
Related Agencies:
Launceston General Hospital (TA442) | 01 Jan 1820 |
Subsequent Agencies:
Cosgrove Park Home for the Aged (TA1912) | 10 Mar 1954 | 31 Jan 1992 |
Series Created By Agency:
AF215 Nominal Roll Book | 31 May 1913 | 10 Mar 1954 |
AF524 Register of Admissions | 01 Jun 1913 | 31 Dec 1919 |
AF523 Report Books | 26 Feb 1915 | 09 Feb 1941 |
AF522 Inmates Personal Account Register | 20 Jan 1948 | 05 Mar 1954 |