Person
Hall, Edward Swarbreck (1805 - 1881)
- Born
- 1805
- Died
- 30 July 1881
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - Occupation
- Physician
Summary
Edward Hall qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, and practiced in Liverpool before migrating to Tasmania in 1832. He held various government and municipal appointments as surgeon and physician over the next 49 years. Hall was an outspoken public health reformer, particularly relating to sanitation, the potential for outbreaks of smallpox and diphtheria, and child welfare. Despite attracting much criticism for his views, he was largely responsible for the passage of the compulsory Vaccination Act. Hall was a committed Catholic layman, and a member of the Royal Society of Tasmania.
Details
Chronology
- 1832
- Life event - Migrated to Tasmania
- 1853 - 1855
- Career position - House Surgeon, Hobart Hospital
- 1861
- Career position - Chairman of the Executive Committee, Benevolent Society
- 1876
- Career event - Appointed Municipal Health Officer, Hobart
Archival resources
Archives Office of Tasmania
- Edward Swarbreck Hall - Records, 1825 - 1937, NS 308; Archives Office of Tasmania. Details
Royal Society of Tasmania
- Edward Swarbreck Hall - Records, 1856, Ms 50; Royal Society of Tasmania. Details
Published resources
Books
- Denholm, Carey; and Petrow, Stefan, Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall: colonial medical scientist and moral activist (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2016), 231 pp. Details
Book Sections
- 'Hall, Edward Swarbreck (1805-1881)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 1: 1788 - 1850 A-H, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1966), pp. 502-503. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010458b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Curson, Peter, 'Edward Swarbreck Hall (1804-1881): Pioneer Australian Demographer: an Assessment and Selected Bibliography', Journal of the Australian Population Association, 2 (2) (1985), 104-113. Details
- Petrow, Stefan, 'Lay defender of Catholicism: Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall in Tasmania 1833 - 1881', Journal of religious history, 40 (4) (2016), 565-88. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q16596744. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93691465. Details
- 'Hall, E S (1805-1881)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-579736. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
- Foundation Supporter - Committee to Review Australian Studies in Tertiary Education