Person
Cilento, Raphael West (1893 - 1985)
- Born
- 2 December 1893
Jamestown, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 14 April 1985
- Occupation
- Medical administrator and Public servant
Summary
Sir Raphael Cilento graduated in medicine at the University of Adelaide and then specialized in tropical medicine. He was Director-General of Health and Medical Services in Queensland 1934-1945 and Professor of Social and Tropical Medicine at the University of Queensland.
Details
Born Jamestown, South Australia, 2 December 1893. Died 14 April, 1985. Educated University of Adelaide (MD, BS) and London School of Tropical Medicine (DRM and H). Australian Naval and Military Forces, New Guinea 1915-19; medical officer, Federated Malay States 1920-21; Medical Officer for Tropical Hygiene, Commonwealth Department of Health from 1921; Director, Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville 1922-27; Director, Division of Tropical Hygiene and Chief Quarantine Officer, North East Division of Australia 1928-33; Director-General of Health and Medical Services Queensland 1934-45; Honorary Professor of Social and Tropical Medicine, University of Queensland 1937-45; U.N.R.R.A. Zone Director, British Zone in Germany and attached to British Army of the Rhine 1945-46; Director for Refugees and Displaced Persons, United Nations 1946-47; director, Division of Social Activities 1947-49; established project for relief of refugees from Arab-Israeli War 1948; returned to Australia 1951; part-time medical practice, Mooloolaba and wrote articles for journals and newspapers. President, Medical Board of Queensland 1939-45; president, Historical Society of Queensland on several occasions.
Chronology
- 1922 - 1927
- Career position - Director, Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine
- 1936
- Career event - Member, Nutrition Advisory Council, Commonwealth Government
Related entries
Wife
Archival resources
Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland
- Raphael West Cilento - Records, 1913 - 1972, UQFL 44; Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland. Details
Published resources
Books
- Cameron-Smith, Alexander, A doctor across borders: Raphael Cilento and public health from empire to the United Nations (Canberra: ANU Press, 2019), 314 pp. http://doi.org/10.22459/DAB.2019. Details
- Cilento, R. W., Malaria: with special reference to Australia and its dependencies (Melbourne: Division of Tropical Hyeiene, Commonwealth Department of Health, [1924?]), 141 pp. Details
- Cilento, R. W., Filariasis, with special reference to Australia and its dependencies: a review and compilation (Melbourne: Government Printer, [1924?]), 78 pp. Details
- Cilento, Raphael, The white man in the tropics: with special reference to Australia and its dependencies (Melbourne: Government Printer, 1925), 168 pp. Details
- Cilento, Raphael, Tropical diseases in Australasia (Brisbane: Smith & Paterson, 1940), 371 pp. Details
- Cilento, Raphael, Blueprint for the health of a nation (Sydney: Printer: Scotow Press, 1944), 184 pp. Details
- Fisher, Fedora Gould, Raphael Cilento, a Biography (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1994), 369 pp. Details
- Gregory, Helen, Vivant Professores: Distinguished Members of the University of Queensland, 1910-1940 (St Lucia: University of Queensland Library, 1987), 180 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Finnane, Mark, 'Cilento, Sir Raphael West (1893-1985), Medical Practitioner' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 215-217. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cilento-sir-raphael-west-ray-12319. Details
Journal Articles
- Cameron-Smith, Alexander, 'Raphael Cilento's Empire: Diet, Health and Government Between Australia and the Colonial Pacific', Journal of Australian Studies, 38 (2014), 103-18. Details
- Cilento, R., 'Preventive medicine and hygiene in the tropical territories under Australian control', Report of the sixteenth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 16 (1924), 672-84. Details
- Cilento, Raphael, 'Medicine in Queensland', Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 6 (4) (1962), 866-941. Details
- Cilento, Raphael, 'Sir Joseph Banks F.R.S. and the naming of the kangaroo', Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 26 (1971), 157-61. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q13220759. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/11129868. Details
- Sir Raphael Cilento Collection, University of Queensland Fryer Library, 2003, http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/ms/uqfl44.doc. Details
- 'Cilento, Raphael (18931202-19850415)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-618850. Details
See also
- Howie-Willis, Ian, 'Malariology in Australia between the first and second world wars (part 2 of "Pioneers of Australian military malariology")', Journal of Military and Veterans' Health, 24 (2) (2016), 28-39. Details
- Howie-Willis, Ian, 'The pioneers of Australian military malariology: some biographical profiles (part 1)', Journal of Military and Veterans' Health, 24 (1) (2016), 12-24. Details
- Spencer, Margaret, Malaria: the Australian Experience, 1843-1991 (Townsville: Australian College of Tropical Medicine, 1994), 213 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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