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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-12-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001246b.htm person Gresswell Dan Astley AACR2 11 September 1853 10 December 1904 Place of Birth Louth, Lincolnshire, England Place of Death Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Public health worker Dan Gresswell was medical inspector of the Victorian Board of Public Health 1889-1894 and chairman of the Board 1894-1904. He established sanatoriums for patents with tuberculosis, including the Gresswell Sanatorium. Legislation he was responsible for includes the Meat Supervision (1900), Wine Adulteration (1900) and Pure Food (1905) Acts, which when enacted made Victoria a leader in this area.

Born Louth, Lincolnshire, 11 September 1853. Died Melbourne, 10 December 1904. Educated University of Oxford (BA 1875, MB 1881, MD 1890), Würzburg and Bonn (physiology), St Bartholomews Hospital (MRCS (London) 1881) and Cambridge (Sanitary Science Certificate 1884). Stockwell Asylum Board Hospital 1882, house physician, St Bartholomew's 1882-83, visit to South Africa to determine the effects of climate on the communicable diseases 1883, surgeon-superintendent to the South Australian Emigration Service 1883, assistant demonstrator, St Bartholomew's 1884, temporary medical inspector, Local Government Board, investigated the sanitary state of the major cities of Europe, Stockwell Asylum Board Hospital 1886-87, medical inspector, Victorian Board of Public Health 1889-1904. Initiated and chaired the first of the intercolonial quarantine conferences, co-authored the Royal Society of Victoria's 1892 report on cremation and ignited the first authorised cremation in the colony. President, British Medical Association, Victorian branch 1893.

1894 1894 Career position - President, Medical Society of Victoria Medical Society of Victoria (1855 - 1907)

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 'Gresswell, Dan Astley', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Gresswell, Dan Astley Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Gresswell, Dan Astley (1853-1904), public health administrator Dyason, Diana J. Gresswell, Dan Astley (1853-1904), public health administrator Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1983 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 103-104