Person
Elkington, John Simeon Colebrook (1871 - 1955)
- Born
- 29 September 1871
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 8 March 1955
Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Health worker
Summary
John Elkington was an advocate of public health. Amongst his achievements were the introduction of a system for checking the health of schoolchildren, development of a federal quarantine service and work with tropical medicine.
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Roe, Michael, 'Elkington, John Simeon Colebrook (1871-1955), advocate of public health' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 425-426. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/elkington-john-simeon-colebrook-6101. Details
Journal Articles
- Johnson, Murray, 'The 1903 Smallpox Outbreak at Launceston and the Role of J.S.C. Elkington', Launceston General Hospital Historical Committee: Papers and Proceedings (13 November 2005) (2005), 17-22. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15998671. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/21433691. Details
- 'Elkington, J S C (1871-1955)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-573946. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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