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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2018-06-26 human Helen Cohn updated 2024-10-22 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006078b.htm person Wallace Victor Hugo AACR2 17 November 1893 9 April 1977 Place of Birth Boorhaman, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Hughesdale, Victoria, Australia Medical practitioner Gynaecologist Victor Wallace was a medical practitioner and gynaecologist whose interests lay particularly with contraception, the social effects of sexual behaviour and drug addiction. This stemmed from his appreciation of the hardships and social problems experienced by the working poor. In 1934 he co-founded under the auspices of the District Nursing Society, the Women's Welfare Clinic for birth control in Collingwood, a suburb of Melbourne. Wallace was a founding member and long-serving secretary of the Eugenics Society of Victoria from 1936 to 1961, and of the Social Hygiene Society. He lectured and wrote extensively in his areas of interest. Between 1947 and 1955 he was the Australian editor of the journal Marriage hygiene. His book Women and children first (1946) contained his views on many social and public health issues including birth control clinics, maternity allowances, crèches, free education and marriage guidance counselling. 1918 1918 Education - MB BS, University of Melbourne 1918 1919 Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Melbourne Hospital 1919 1920 Career position - Resident Medical Officer, Queen's Memorial Infectious Diseases Hospital 1920 1920 Education - MD, University of Melbourne 1924 1924 Education - Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of England 1926 1927 Career position - Government Medical Officer, Port Moresby, New Guinea 1928 1977 Career position - In general practice, Hughesdale, Victoria 1932 1969? Career position - In practice as a gynaecologist, Melbourne 1936 1936 Career position - Founding Member, Eugenics Society of Victoria 1940 1940 Career position - Founding Member, Social Hygiene Society 1947 1955 Career position - Australian Editor, Marriage Hygiene Eugenics Society of Victoria (1936 - 1961)

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 Wallace, Victor Hugo (18931117-19770409)

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 'Wallace, Victor Hugo', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Wallace, Victor Hugo Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: The Wallace story Wallace, Victor The Wallace story Hughesdale, Vic. The Author 1973 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 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,