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Author
Roe, Michael
Title
Elkington, John Simeon Colebrook (1871-1955), advocate of public health
In
Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib
Editors
Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle
Imprint
Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1981, pp. 425-426
Url
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080450b.htm
Format
Print
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Published online in 2006.

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Quotes: In Tasmania from 1903 - "Funding was always scanty, but Elkington achieved much. He exhorted local authorities to care about health, campaigned against tuberculosis and food adulteration, and fostered infant care. His greatest coup was a system of checking schoolchildren's health, which became a model throughout Australia. Two books, 'Health in the School' (1907) and 'Health Reader' (1908), were published for the Empire and Australasian markets respectively. Elkington remained a champion of tropical medicine, insisting that with its aid Anglo-Saxons could settle northern Australia. Nationalism also led him to advocate a Federal quarantine service, achieved in 1908."

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