Person

Jull, Roberta Henrietta Margaritta (1872 - 1961)

Born
16 August 1872
Glasgow, Scotland
Died
6 March 1961
Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Physician

Summary

Roberta Jull set up practice in Perth in 1897 and became active in social welfare, public health and politics. In 1918 she became the first Medical Officer of Schools in the WA Public Health Department and took a leading part in the infant health movement.

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Chronology

1896
Career position - Joined her brother's practice at Guildford, Western Australia
1896
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM), University of Glasgow, Scotland
1897 - 1917?
Career position - Set up a private practice in Perth
1917 - 1928
Career position - Medical Officer for schools in the Department of Public Health in Western Australia

Archival resources

JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia

  • Roberta Henrietta Margaritta Jull - Records, 1861 - 1959, MN 69; JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia. Details

Wellcome Collection

  • Eugenics Society in the University of Western Australia, 1933 - 1937, SA/EUG/E.5; Eugenics Society [SA/EUG]; Wellcome 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

  • Church, Patricia Sholl, 'Jull, Roberta Henrietta Margaritta (1872-1961), medical practitioner' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 530-531. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090528b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

  • Malone, F. P. M., 'Dr Corlis and Dr Jull: Medical Women in Nineteenth Century Western Australia', Early Days: Journal of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, 12 (2005), 506-21. Details

Resources

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.

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