Person
Halley, Ida Gertrude Margaret (1867 - 1939)
- Born
- 1 August 1867
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 1 October 1939
Maylands, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Physician
Summary
Ida Halley became a medical inspector of schools in Tasmania (1906) and from 1910 held a similar position in Sydney where she lectured on hygiene at the Teachers' College. In 1913 she established the medical branch of the Education Department in South Australia.
Archival resources
State Records of South Australia
- Ida Gertrude Margaret Halley - Records, 1913 - 1939; State Records of South Australia. Details
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
- Kwan, Elizabeth, 'Halley, Ida Gertrude Margaret (1867-1939)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 9 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 170-171. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090162b.htm. Details
- Kwan, Elizabeth, 'Gertrude Halley (1867-1939) medical officer' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details
Edited Books
- Radi, H. ed., 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988), 268 pp. 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/Q21539210. Details
- 'Halley, Ida Gertrude Margaret (1867-1939)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-748077. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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