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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker updated 2024-10-23 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002601b.htm person Snowball William AACR2 7 November 1854 22 April 1902 Place of Birth Carlton, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Victoria, Australia Physician William Snowball was connected with the Children's Hospital, Melbourne, from 1878 until his death. He was also in private practice as a paediatrician and has been called 'the father of paediatrics in Melbourne'.

Born Carlton, Victoria, prob. 7 November 1854. Died 22 April 1902. Educated University of Melbourne (MB 1875, BS 1880). Also studied at University College London (LSA 1876). Worked at the Great Ormond Street Hospital and in Edinburgh and visited several continental hospitals before being appointed resident doctor at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne 1878-82, private practice as a paediatrician at Carlton and became an honorary at the Children's Hospital in 1882. Chairman of the honorary medical staff at the Children's Hospital, working to improve both in-patient and out-patient accommodation and nurses' accommodation. He also introduced hospital lectures by the honorary staff to nurses and medical students. President, Victorian Branch, British Medical Association 1895.

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 'Snowball, William', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Snowball, William Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Snowball, William (1854?-1902), medical practitioner Gardiner, Lyndsay Snowball, William (1854?-1902), medical practitioner Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1990 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z John Ritchie 8 Resource: Federation and Meteorology Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Federation and Meteorology 2001 'Frosterley' at No. 2 Drummond Street. 'Frosterley' at No. 2 Drummond Street. Originally built for Dr William Snowball, 'Frosterley' was the headquarters of the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology from 1908 until 1974. Image courtesy Bureau of Meteorology. Dr William Snowball Dr William Snowball Courtesy Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne.

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