Hensley, Annie (1901 - 1989)

Summary

Dr Annie Hensley was appointed coordinator of the Melbourne City Council's first campaign to combat dyptheria, in 1924. The campaign involved education of parents and vaccination and testing of children.

Over the course of the campaign she tested and immunised 11,230 children.

Between 1926 and 1932 she lived in Fiji and worked at the Ba Methodist Mission Hospital for Indian mothers.

Dr Hensley practiced and consulted until the age of 81.

Details

Chronology

1918 - 1923

Education - M.B.B.S. From the Medical School of the University of Melbourne

1923

Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Melbourne Hospital

1924 - 1926

Career position - Coordinator of Melbourne City Council's Dyptheria eradication campaign

1926 - 1932

Career position - Doctor at the Ba Methodist Mission Hospital, Fiji

1932 -

Career position - Ongoing private medical practice

1978

Award - Member of the British Empire

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 regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

• Donsford, A., Dr A. D. Hensley - A medical life of service (Hawthorndene, South Australia: Investigator Press Pty. Ltd., 1989), 124 pp. Details

Resources

• 'Hensley, Annie (19010206-19891231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1514359. Details

See also

• Hooker, Claire, Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2004), 215 pp. Details