Person

Mayo, Helen Mary (1878 - 1967)

OBE

Born
1 October 1878
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died
13 November 1967
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Physician

Summary

Helen Mayo opened a practice in Adelaide in 1906 specializing in midwifery and the health of women and children. She lectured at the University of Adelaide 1926-1934. She also founded the Mothers' and Babies' Health Association and the Mareeba Babies' Hospital.

Details

Chronology

1901
Award - Davies Thomas Scholarship, University of Adelaide
1902
Award - Everard Scholarship, University of Adelaide
1902
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Adelaide, first female graduate in medicine, University
1902 - 1903
Career position - House Surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital
1903 - 1906
Career position - Clinical Clerk at the Hospital for Sick Children in London and experience in midwifery in Dublin, Ireland and Delhi, India
1906 - ?
Career position - Private practice in Adelaide
1911 - 1933
Career position - Clinical Bacteriologist in the Vaccine Department at the Adelaide Hospital
1919 - 1926
Career position - Honorary Assistant Physician at the Adelaide Children's Hospital
1926
Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Adelaide, first female MD, University
1926 - 1934
Career position - Clinical Lecturer in medical diseases of children, University of Adelaide
1926 - 1938
Career position - Honorary Physician at the Adelaide Children's Hospital
1935
Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1938 - 1940
Career position - Honorary Consulting Physician at the Adelaide Children's Hospital
1940 - 1945
Career position - Senior Paediatric Advisor at the Adelaide Children's Hospital

Archival resources

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

  • Helen Mary Mayo - Records, 1878 - 1960, PRG 127; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. 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

Books

  • Mackinnon, Alison, The Medicals: Laura Hope, Helen Mayo, Rosamund Benham [and] Phyllis Cliento, The New Women: Adelaide's Early Women Graduates (Netley, S.A.: Wakefield Press, 1986). Details
  • McDonald, G. L., Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988), 332 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Hicks, Neville; Leopold, Elisabeth, 'Mayo, Helen Mary (1878-1967), medical practitioner' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 466-467. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100455b.htm. Details
  • Mackinnon, Alison, 'Helen Mayo (1878-1967) paediatrician' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: 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

Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'Obituary: Helen Mary Mayo', Medical Journal of Australia, 1968 (1) (1968), 368-70. 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
  • Duncan, W.; and Leonard, R., The University of Adelaide, 1874-1974 (Adelaide: Rigby, 1973), 203 pp. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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