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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. and Helen Cohn updated 2025-01-29 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001090b.htm person Johnson Edward Angas AACR2 15 January 1873 19 June 1951 Place of Birth Angaston, South Australia, Australia Place of Death Glenelg, South Australia, Australia Physician Naturalist Angas Johnson studies medicine at the University of Adelaide but graduated from the University of Melbourne on 1879. He spent the next three years studying at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin in Germany, and at several London hospitals. On returning to Adelaide in1902 he was appointed to the Adelaide Hospital where he remained for over 20 years. Johnson was involved in a number of public health organisations, including: the Pure Foods and Drugs, Consumption, and Fever Hospital boards; the Influenza Committee; and the medico-legal panel of the Crown Law Department. He was a member of the Adelaide City Council between 1902 and 1924, when, on being appointed Health Officer to the Council, he was required to resign from his other positions. On several issues he voiced opinions at variance with those of his colleagues, notably on the use of Pasteurella bacteria to control rabbits and the efficacy of immunisation against diphtheria. Johnson was a keen naturalists, serving as President of the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of South Australia. 1924 Career position - Member of the Board, Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1897 1897 Education - MB, University of Melbourne 1898 1898 Career position - House surgeon, Adelaide Children's Hospital 1899 1899 Education - Doctorate in Medicine, University of Göttingen, Germany 1900 1901 Education - Studied at Universities of Berlin, Germany; London, King's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals; and London School of Tropical Medicine 1902 1903 Career position - Councillor for Hindmarsh, Adelaide City Council 1902 1904 Career position - President, Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of South Australia 1902 1909 Career position - Honorary Assistant Physician, Adelaide Hospital 1907 1924 Career position - Councillor for Hindmarsh, Adelaide City Council 1909 1924 Career position - Honorary Physician, Adelaide Hospital 1911 1924 Career position - Member, Adelaide Board of Health 1924 1938 Career position - Health Officer, Adelaide City Council 1926 1942 Career position - Honorary sanitary advisor, Adelaide Hospital Field Naturalists' Section, Royal Society of South Australia (1883 - 1959)

President 1902 - 1904

 Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Colony and State of South Australia (1855 - )

Member of the Board ? - 1924

 Adelaide Hospital (1840 - )

Honorary Physician 1909 - 1924, Honorary sanitary advisor 1926 - 1942

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 'Johnson, Edward Angas', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Johnson, Edward Angas Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Johnson, Edward Angas (1873-1951), medical practitioner Hughes, J. Escourt Johnson, Edward Angas (1873-1951), medical practitioner Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1983 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 492-493 Edward Angas Johnson - Records Adelaide City Council Archives Edward Angas Johnson - Records C 92 1924 - 1938 Reports and correspondence of Johnson while he was City Medical Officer 1924-38 [C92]. Edward Angas Johnson - Records State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana Edward Angas Johnson - Records PRG 123 1928 - 1949 Letters received, press cuttings, manuscript notes, photographs and other records c1928-49 [about 70 items, PRG 123]. 70 items approx.