Person
Bourne, Eleanor Elizabeth (1878 - 1957)
- Born
- 4 December 1878
South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 23 May 1957
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Physician and Public health worker
Summary
Eleanor Bourne went into general practice in 1907 and served as physician to the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane. In 1911 she became medical officer for the Department of Public Instruction and worked for many years in child health, both in Australia and Britain.
Details
Educated University of Sydney (bachelor of medicine and master of surgery 1903). The first Queensland woman to study medicine. Resident medical officer, Women's Hospital, Sydney, Brisbane General Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane 1903-07; general practice 1907-10, also honorary out-patient physician to the children's hospital and an anaesthetist; first medical officer, Department of Public Instruction; lieutenant, Royal Army Medical Corps 1916-18; Diploma of Public Health, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons 1920; assistant medical officer to the city of Carlisle, organising child welfare services and the new maternity hospital and associated maternal welfare services 1920-37. Retired to Brisbane 1937. First honorary medical officer to the Creche and Kindergarten Association in Queensland.
Archival resources
John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland
- Eleanor Elizabeth Bourne - Records, 1900 - 1957, OM81-129; John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland. 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
- Bell, Jacqueline, 'Bourne, Eleanor Elizabeth (1878-1957), medical practitioner' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 356-357. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070364b.htm. Details
- Bell, Jacqueline, 'Eleanor Bourne (1878-1957) doctor' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, ed. (Broadway, New South Wales: 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
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15664445. Details
- 'Bourne, Eleanor Elizabeth (1878-1957)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-755071. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018
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