Person
Pound, Charles Joseph (1866 - 1946)
- Born
- 29 May 1866
London, United Kingdom - Died
- 25 September 1946
Yeronga, Birs, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Microscopist
Summary
Charles Pound was Queensland's first Government Bacteriologist. Trained in bacteriology and the manufacture of vaccines at King's College, London, and the Pasteur Institute, Paris, he was briefly employed with the New South Wales Department of Health before becoming Director of the Queensland Stock Institute. In his investigations into tick-borne diseases of cattle, Pound established an inoculation methodology still used world-wide. He was instrumental in persuading the Queensland Government to establish a diagnostic and research laboratory, the Bacteriological Institute. In 1899 he was appointed Queensland's first Government Bacteriologist. Pound also worked on the diagnosis of human and bovine tuberculosis, leprosy, plague and chicken cholera, in the process of which he sometimes fell foul of the medical establishment by proving them wrong.
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Chronology
- 1888 - 1892
- Career position - principal assistant, bacteriology laboratory, King's College, London
- 1892
- Life event - Migrated to New South Wales
- 1892 - 1893
- Career position - laboratory assistant, New South Wales Department of Health
- 1893 - 1899
- Career position - Director, Queensland Stock Institute, Brisbane
- 1899 - 1932
- Career position - Government Bacteriologist, Queensland Bacteriological Institute
- 1910 - 1932
- Career position - Director, Yeerongpilly Stock Experiment Station, Queensland
- 1932
- Life event - Retired
Published resources
Book Sections
- Angus, Beverley M., 'Pound, Charles Joseph (1866 - 1946), microscopist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Christopher Cunneen, ed., vol. Supplement (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005), pp. 325-6. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pound-charles-joseph-13156. Details
Journal Articles
- Blackall, Pat J., 'Pasteur, rabbits and Cumberland disease', Microbiology Australia, 41 (4) (2020), 201-4. https://doi.org/10.1071/MA20054. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536328. Details
- 'Pound, C J (18660529-19460925)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1309106. Details
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