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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes updated 2025-10-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001020b.htm person Dale John OBE MID AACR2 2 May 1885 27 September 1952 Place of Birth Coleshill, Warwickshire, England Place of Death Venice, Italy Physician Health administrator Dr John Dale OBE MD ChB BSc was Medical Officer for the City of Melbourne 1927-1950, and lectured in Public Health at the University of Melbourne 1929 - 1950. During the Second World War he presented many health talks on ABC radio. From 1920 to 1927 he was a Medical Officer of Health, and Assistant Inspector of Hospitals, Department of Public Health, Western Australia. A portrait of "Dr John Dale, OBE" c1932, painted by Colin Colahan, is in the National Gallery of Victoria collection. 1908 1908 Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (ChB), University of Birmingham 1909 1909 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Birmingham 1914 1919 Military service - First World War. Major, Royal Army Medical Corps [also Deputy Assistant Director of medical services (sanitation) to the Second and Fourth Armies and the Army of the Rhine] 1918 1918 Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 1919 1919 Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Birmingham 1920 1920 Life event - Migrated to Sydney, Australia 1920 1927 Career position - Medical Officer of Health and Assistant Inspector of Hospitals, Department of Public Health, Perth, Western Australia 1923 1923 Career event - Elected Associate Member (Pathology), Australian National Research Council 1927 1950 Career position - City Health Officer, City of Melbourne 1929 1950 Career position - Lecturer, Public Health, University of Melbourne 1941 1945 Career position - Radio broadcaster. Provided many general health talks on ABC radio during the Second World War 1950 1950 Life event - Retired 1951 1952 Career position - Medical Officer, Department of Immigration, Commonwealth of Australia [in Holland] Public Health Department of Western Australia, State of Western Australia (1911 - 1984)

Medical Officer of Health and Assistant Inspector of Hospitals 1920 - 1927

 Australian Broadcasting Commission (1932 - 1983)

Regular health broadcaster on ABC radio 1941 - 1945

 The University of Melbourne (1853 - )

Lecturer in Public Health 1929 - 1950

 Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Associate Member (Pathology) 1923 -

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 Dale, John (1885-1952)

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 'Dale, John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Dale, John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Dale, John (1885-1952), medical practitioner Gardiner, Lyndsay Dale, John (1885-1952), medical practitioner Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1981 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 191-192 Victoria Eugenics Society Wellcome Collection Victoria Eugenics Society SA/EUG/E.3 1914 - 1939 A set of 113 imaged pages dating 1914-1915 (Victorian Eugenics Society), 1925-1926 (Office of the Agent-General for Victoria) and 1937-1939 (Eugenics Society of Victoria). In the 1914-1915 correspondence ( 6 pages) of Carlotta Greenshields (37 Mary Street, Glenferrie) and W. Ernest Jones (Inspector-General of the Insane for Victoria) with the Sybil Gotto of the Eugenics Education Society, it is flagged that an attempt was made to establish an eugenics society in Victoria with Professor Bladwin Spencer as president. The initiative failed due to Bladwin Spencer being already overloaded and the intervention of the World War. Other people mentioned in this correspondence include J.C. Eldridge of Sydney and a Mr Macfie (5 Elm Grove, Armadale). The 1925-1926 correspondence (2 pages) concerns information about the Marriage Acts in Victoria. The 1937-1939 correspondence (105 pages) concerns the creation of the Eugenics Society of Victoria in 1936 and its relationship with the Eugenics Society (London). The principle correspondent is Dr Victor Hugo Wallace (Secretary, Eugenics Society of Victoria). Other include: Professor W.E. Agar, Dr C.P. Blacker (General Secretary, The Eugenics Society); Lord Horder; Mrs E.E. Potton; Dr Mennell; Geoffery Kaye (14 Collins Street Melbourne); Colin Clark (Bureau of Industry, Brisbane, Queensland); Clinton F. Chance. Includes publications of the Eugenics Society of Victoria including the "Syllabus of Lectures" for 1937, 1938 and 1939 which includes presentations by: Colin Clark; Dr W. Bryden; Dr Reg. S Ellery; Dr V.H. Wallace; Professor W.E. Agar; Dr Fritz Duras; Mrs Angela Booth; Dr P.M. Bachelard, Rev. William Bottomley; Dr C. Farran-Ridge; Dr John Dale; Dr K.S. Cunningham; and Dr Anita Muhl. Included is: "Publication No. 1" of the Eugenics Society of Victoria, 'Voluntary Sterilization for Human Betterment' by Mrs Angela Booth, July 1938; and the Annual Report 1939 which reports on donations and the establishment of a "Consultative Council" and the financial report from C. Mitchell Tovell, Honorary Treasurer. In the letterhead from 1939 the Consultative Council members are: Professor G.S. Browne; Dr K.S. Cunningham; Dr John Dale; Judge Foster; Mr J.D.G. Medley, M.A.; Sir David Rivett; and Dr Georgina Sweet. 1 file Digitised paper records, Victoria Eugenics Society Wellcome Collection Victoria Eugenics Society SA/EUG/E.4 1940 - 1961 A set of 161 imaged pages. This file covers the link between the Eugenics Society of Victoria and the Eugenics Society (London) 1940-1961. The key correspondent is V.H. Wallace, Secretary of the Eugenics Society of Victoria from its foundation in 1936 until it was brought to a close in 1961. Latter documents refer to Frank Macfarlane Burnet, M.J.D. White and R.N. Robertson. 1 file Digitised paper records