Mayo, Helen Mary (1878 - 1967)

Summary

Helen Mayo opened a practice in Adelaide in 1906 specializing in midwifery and the health of women and children. She lectured at the University of Adelaide 1926-1934. She also founded the Mothers' and Babies' Health Association and the Mareeba Babies' Hospital.

Details

Chronology

1901

Award - Davies Thomas Scholarship received from the University of Adelaide

1902

Award - Everard Scholarship received from the University of Adelaide

1902

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Adelaide, first female graduate in medicine at the University

1902 - 1903

Career position - House Surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital

1903 - 1906

Career position - Clinical Clerk at the Hospital for Sick Children in London and experience in midwifery in Dublin, Ireland and Delhi, India

1906 - ?

Career position - Private practice in Adelaide

1911 - 1933

Career position - Clinical Bacteriologist in the Vaccine Department at the Adelaide Hospital

1919 - 1926

Career position - Honorary Assistant Physician at the Adelaide Children's Hospital

1926

Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD) received from the University of Adelaide, first female MD at the University

1926 - 1934

Career position - Clinical Lecturer in medical diseases of children at the University of Adelaide

1926 - 1938

Career position - Honorary Physician at the Adelaide Children's Hospital

1935

Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

1938 - 1940

Career position - Honorary Consulting Physician at the Adelaide Children's Hospital

1940 - 1945

Career position - Senior Paediatric Advisor at the Adelaide Children's Hospital

Archival resources

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

• Helen Mary Mayo - Records, 1878 - 1960, PRG 127; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

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

Books

• Mackinnon, Alison, The Medicals: Laura Hope, Helen Mayo, Rosamund Benham [and] Phyllis Cliento, The New Women: Adelaide's Early Women Graduates (Netley, S.A.: Wakefield Press, 1986). Details
• McDonald, G. L., Roll of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1988), 332 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Hicks, Neville; Leopold, Elisabeth, 'Mayo, Helen Mary (1878-1967), Medical Practitioner' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 10 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 466-467. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100455b.htm. Details
• Mackinnon, Alison, 'Helen Mayo (1878-1967) paediatrician' in 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Heather Radi, ed. (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988). Details

Edited Books

• Radi, H. ed., 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology (Sydney: Women's Redress Press Inc, 1988), 268 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Anon, 'Obituary: Helen Mary Mayo', Medical Journal of Australia, 1968 (1) (1968), 368-70. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10294419. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94996216. Details
• 'Mayo, Helen M (1878-1967)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-756061. Details

See also

• Alexander, John A. ed., Who's who in Australia 1944 (Melbourne, Victoria: The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, 1944), 906 pp. Details
• Duncan, W.; and Leonard, R., The University of Adelaide, 1874-1974 (Adelaide: Rigby, 1973), 203 pp. Details