Person
Booth, Mary (1869 - 1956)
OBE
- Born
- 9 July 1869
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 28 November 1956
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Physician and Public health worker
Summary
Mary Booth lectured in hygiene at girls' secondary schools in Sydney from 1900 and for the Department of Public Instruction 1904-1909. In 1910-1912 she helped establish the first schools medical service in Victoria and was later involved in household health and welfare. She is commemorated by the Mary Booth scholarship for women economics students, University of Sydney.
Details
Chronology
- 1890
- Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Sydney
- 1891 - 1893
- Career position - Governess
- 1899
- Career position - Infirmary work in the UK
- 1899
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (CM), College of Medicine for Women, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1900
- Career position - Anthropometrist in the Department of the Government Statistician
- 1900 - 1910
- Career position - Private practice with much contractual work
- 1904 - 1909
- Career position - Lecturer in Hygiene for the Department of Public Instruction
- 1910 - 1912
- Career position - Helped to establish the first school medical service in Victoria for the Victorian Department of Education
- 1913
- Career position - Represented the Australian Government at a Conference on Infant Mortality in London
- 1914
- Career position - Founded the Babies' Kit Society for the Allies' Babies
- 1918
- Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- 1921 - 1956
- Career position - President, Anzac Fellowship of Women
- 1936
- Career position - Founded Memorial College of Household Arts and Science
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Angus & Robertson - Records, 1824 - 1933, ML MSS 314; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- Mary Booth - Records, 1899 - 1957, ML MSS 1329; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Mary Booth - Records, c. 1918 - 1979, MS 2864; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. 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
- Roe, J. I., 'Booth, Mary (1869-1956), physician and welfare worker' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 345-346. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070350b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Booth, Mary, 'The Scope and Organisation of a School Medical Service', Transaction of the Australasian Medical Congress (1911), 650-655. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536586. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/311599545. Details
- 'Booth, Mary (1869-1956)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-771086. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Booth, Mary (1869-1956), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0100b.htm. Details
See also
- Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 5 March 2018
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