Person
Mead, Gertrude Ella (1867 - 1919)
- Born
- 31 December 1867
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 6 November 1919
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Physician
Summary
Gertrude Mead started her professional career as a nurse, but in 1892 decided to switch to medicine. She began her medical studies at the University of Adelaide and completed them at the University of Melbourne (1897). The following two years were spent working at a children's hospital in England, at a women's hospital in Dublin and as a house surgeon at Leith in Scotland. Upon returning to Australia in 1901, Mead ran a private practice from her home in Perth. She kept up her interest in the nursing profession and was a delegate of the Australian Trained Nurses' Association - Western Australian (WA) Branch - and a committee member of the Silver Chain Nursing League. Mead was also a founder of the Children's Protection Society of WA, a long-term senate member of the University of WA, a life member of St John Ambulance Brigade and an advocate for cottage-home accommodation for the elderly.
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Chronology
- 1890 - 1891
- Education - Trained as a nurse at Adelaide Children's Hospital
- 1897
- Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne
- 1898 - 1900
- Career position - Postgraduate work in Britain
- 1901
- Life event - Returned to Australia (Perth) and became the third registered female Doctor in Western Australia
- 1909 -
- Career position - Honorary Physician at Perth Children's Hospital
- 1912 -
- Career position - Committee member of the Silver Chain Nursing League
- 1912
- Career position - Medical Representative of the inaugural Senate of the University of Western Australia
- 1912 - 1914
- Career position - Honorary Medical Officer at the House of Mercy for unmarried mothers
- 1915 - 1919
- Career position - Perth Divisional Surgeon with the St John Ambulance Brigade
- 1918
- Career position - Honorary Medical Officer at Fremantle Base Hospital
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
Book Sections
- Joske, Prue, 'Mead, Gertrude Ella (1867-1919), Medical Practitioner' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 10 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 468-469. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100457b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21538343. Details
- 'Mead, Gertrude Ella (1867-1919)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1464086. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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