Person
Aspinall, Jessie Strahorn (1880 - 1953)
- Born
- 10 December 1880
Forbes, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 25 August 1953
Haberfield, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Physician
Summary
Jessie Aspinall was the first female junior medical officer at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 1906. She later went into private practice. In 1941 she gave Berida, her house at Bowral and three acres of land, to the Red Cross; it was used as a convalescent home for ex-servicemen.
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Chronology
- c. 1905
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM) completed at the University of Sydney
- 1906 - 1907
- Career position - First female junior medical resident officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney
- 1907
- Career position - Junior House Surgeon at the General Hospital in Hobart
- 1908
- Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Women's Hospital in Crown Street, Sydney
- 1908 - 1953
- Career position - Life-Governor of the Women's Hospital
- 1909 - 1915
- Career position - Private practice in Sydney
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Book Sections
- Durie, E. Beatrix, 'Aspinall, Jessie Strahorn (1880-1953)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 7 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), p. 118. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070122b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Alexander, Alison, 'The first women doctors in Tasmania, 1907 - 1939', Papers and proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 67 (2) (2019), 57-82. https://10.3316/informit.586360991150748. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6187602. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/160318141. Details
- 'Aspinall, Jessie Strahorn (1880-1953)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1462760. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 27 August 2019
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