Gender and age: Women, teenage girls, babies Controling organisation: The Salvation Army Third-party provider to State, faith-based Operational period: 1920 - 1974/1975. Registered 23/3/1929, under the supervision of the Health Department before 1962. Adoption Information The Salvation Army was a maternity provider for many years, and offered services to pregnant women in Auckland, Gisborne, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. These private Hospitals for married and unmarried mothers were called Bethany Hospitals and operated for many decades. The Gisborne Hospital's official name was Edward Murphy Memorial Maternity Hospital/Home; the Dunedin Hospital was Redroofs Maternity Hospital. They still hold some records of these Hospitals. These records include some adoption records.
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