Doctors

...a place in the KellyGang story 

Things

Importance of Doctors

There were very few centres with doctors in the Kelly Country. The importance of doctors have not changed. But the practice of medicine has changed greatly. Nearly all the qualified doctors had been trained in England or Scotland.
Beechworth was about the only town in the Kelly country with a large hospital, but there were hospitals in Kilmore andWangaratta. Smaller towns such as Alexandra and Mansfield had a cottage hospital.

The newspapers were full of advertisement for various pills and other treatments.

This was a time when many children died from disease and mothers died in child birth.
Diphtheria, scarlet fever and whooping cough were a constant threat (Alexandra1/6/1878)
Men died from accidents on farms and there were many accidents involving horses.

Towns with doctors the Kelly Country

Alexandra
Albury
Beechworth
Benalla - ,
Bright
Chiltern

Kyneton
Mansfield - ,
Melbourne
Pentridge
Wangaratta -
Yackandandah
Yea

Deniliquin
Echuca
El Dorado
Jerilderie
Kilmore

Doctors in the Kelly Country

Bowen Dr - ,
Brock Edward Dr
Cheyne Dr
Cleary Martin Francis Dr
Cobbett Robert Newberry Dr
Crouch George James Dr
Deshon Frederick Peter
Dick Thomas
Dobbyn William Dr -
Fergusson Dr -
Fitzgerald Thomas Naghten Dr
Ford Frederick Dr
Fox Dr
Geary Henry Dr
Gillbee Dr
Gummow Benjamin W Dr
Gray Andrew Sexton Dr

O'Hara Henry L Dr
Pestell James Dr
Poulton Benjamin Dr
Reed James Dr
Reynolds Samuel Dr -
Rohner Charles William Dr
Ryan Charles Dr
Semple William Henry Dr
Shields Dr
Shrapnel Joseph Needham S Dr
Smith Samuel Dr
Turner Dr
Walker George Richard
Warren Benjamin Dr
Wren Erasmus

Haley Dr
Hayden James A Dr
Hester Dr
Hill Joseph Higham Dr
Hutchinson Bengamin C Dr
Hutchinson Berkeley W
Hutton -
Keatinge Jeffery J Dr
Kelly Edmund Dr
Langford William Dr
McMullen William Dr
Miller William H Dr
Muller Augustus Dr
Nicholson John Dr -
Newbould Edmund Dr

Links to the KellyGang

The families of the KellyGang seldom had opportunity to see a doctor. Most mothers gave birth at home and few could afford a doctor. The Government engaged the services of one of the best surgeons in the colony, Dr Charles Ryan, and brought him up to Glenrowan to look after Ned Kelly. He needed to be kept alive so he could be tried and hung.

In 1876 there was a Scartel Fever scare

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