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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-10-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000985b.htm person Aspinall Jessie Strahorn AACR2 10 December 1880 25 August 1953 Place of Birth Forbes, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Haberfield, New South Wales, Australia Physician Jessie Aspinall was the first female junior medical officer at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 1906. She later went into private practice. In 1941 she gave Berida, her house at Bowral and three acres of land, to the Red Cross; it was used as a convalescent home for ex-servicemen. c. 1905 c. 1905 Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM), University of Sydney 1906 1907 Career position - First female junior medical resident officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney 1907 1907 Career position - Junior House Surgeon at the General Hospital in Hobart 1908 1908 Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Women's Hospital in Crown Street, Sydney 1908 1953 Career position - Life-Governor of the Women's Hospital 1909 1915 Career position - Private practice in Sydney Hobart General Hospital (1860 - 1938)

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 'Aspinall, Jessie Strahorn', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Aspinall, Jessie Strahorn Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Aspinall, Jessie Strahorn (1880-1953), medical practitioner Durie, E. Beatrix Aspinall, Jessie Strahorn (1880-1953), medical practitioner Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 118 Journal Article: All this fuss about a trivial incident? Women, hospitals and medical work in New South Wales McCarthy, Louella All this fuss about a trivial incident? Women, hospitals and medical work in New South Wales 2005 Women's History Review 14 2 267-85 Journal Article: The first women doctors in Tasmania, 1907 - 1939 Alexander, Alison The first women doctors in Tasmania, 1907 - 1939 2019 Papers and proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association 67 2 57-82 Book Section: Dalyell, Elsie Jean (1881-1948), pathologist Mitchell, Ann M. Dalyell, Elsie Jean (1881-1948), pathologist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1981 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 201-202