Dr Joan Refshauge
Joan Refshauge was an Australian medical practitioner and leader in the field of public health.
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Joyce Whitworth
Joyce Whitworth trained as a nurse at the Royal Alexandria Hospital, New South Wales. She worked in administration positions, before enlisting in the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) in 1941. Whitworth was made commanding officer of recruit training in the AWAS in 1943, a position she occupied until June 1946.
Joan Savage
Joan Savage worked in private dental practice in 1936, before becoming the director of dental health education at the Australian Dental Association, New South Wales Branch in 1937.
Dr Margaret Schlink
Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist
Lilian Marguerite Medland
Lilian Medland trained and worked for many years as a nurse in England and illustrated The Birds of the British Isles between 1906 and 1911, among other books.
Margaret Lang
Australian nurse Margaret Lang was matron of various Victorian country hospitals, served in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) during the First World War and was founder and Matron-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Nursing Service during the Second World War.
Lucy Compson Daw
Lucy Daw was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1939 in recognition of her work as matron of the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Kate Mackay
Kate MacKay was a resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital in 1922, the Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, in 1923 and the Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, in 1924. In 1939 she became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Lucinda Sullivan
1800s Irish philanthropist, writer and promoter of children’s welfare
Katherine Jones
1600s Viscountess Ranelagh and woman of letters