Brown, Vera Scantlebury (1889 - 1946)

Chronology

1914	Resident Medical Officer at Melbourne Hospital
1914	Bachelor of Medicine (MB), Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Melbourne
1915 - 1917	Resident staff at the Children's Hospital
1917 - 1919	Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps
1919 - 1946	Many honorary appointments including Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, the Women's and Children's hospitals, the Victorian Baby Health Centres Association, and the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria
1921 - 1946	Medical Officer in charge of city baby health centres (part-time)
1924	Doctor of Medicine (MD) received from the University of Melbourne
1925	Survey of the welfare of women and children, comparing Victoria with New Zealand for the Victorian Government
1926 - 1946	Director of the section of infant welfare for the Health Department (part-time)
1938	Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1946	Annual travelling scholarship of £750 established by the Vera Scantlebury Brown Child Welfare Memorial Trust

• 'Brown, Vera Scantlebury (1889-1946), Biographical Entry', in Australian Women's Archives Project, National Foundation for Australian Women, 2002, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0065b.htm.