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Hood, Alexander Jarvie (1860 - 1934)
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Physician
Born: 21 October 1860  Tarbolton, Ayrshire, Scotland.  Died: 8 May 1934  Potts point, New South Wales, Australia.
(Sir) Alexander Jarvie Hood was a Scottish-born medical practitioner who served the people of New South Wales for over thirty years. He held many posts, often consecutive, during this time including chief medical officer for City Mutual Life Assurance Society (1889-1934), honorary medical officer at Sydney Hospital from 1890 and advisor to the New South Wales Government from 1893. Hood was knighted in 1921 for his honorary war service which included stints with the Army Medical Corps (1890-1904c) and the New South Wales Scottish Rifles (1904-1909) and senior consultant physician at the Military Hospital, Randwick from 1915.
Career Highlights

Chronology
1882Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (ChB) completed at the University of Glasgow
1882 - 1883Resident at the Glasgow Western Infirmary
1884Migrated to Australia (New South Wales)
1884Registered to practice medicine in Australia
1884 - c. 1888Private practice in Rockymouth, New South Wales
1887 - Member of the British Medical Association, New South Wales branch
1887 - 1889Medical Officer (unpaid) at the Lower Clarence Hospital
1888 - 1889Government Medical Officer in the Clarence River district
1889Moved to Sydney
1889 - 1934Chief Medical Officer at City Mutual Life Assurance Society Pty. Ltd.
1890Honorary Surgeon at the Sydney Hospital
1890 - c. 1920Honorary war service in the Army Medical Corps with the New South Wales Scottish Rifles and unatached
1893 - Government Consultant
1893 - 1895Assistant Physician at the Sydney Hospital
1894 - 1921Joint Honorary Secretary of the New South Wales Medical Union
1895 - 1920Physician at the Sydney Hospital
1903 - 1938Official Visitor at Gladesville and Callan Park Hospitals for the insane
1912 - 1934Medical Advisor for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia
1916 - 1934?Director of the City Mutual Life Assurance Society Pty. Ltd.
1920 - Consulting Physician at the Sydney Hospital
1920 - 1934Council member of the War Memorial Hospital in Waverley
1921Knighted

 
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