Dr John Springthorpe at Mont Park Hospital
Colonel (Dr) John Springthorpe (1855 – 1933) graduated in medicine from The University of...
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Dr (William) Ernest Jones
In 1905, Dr (William) Ernest Jones was appointed Victorian ‘Inspector General of the Insane’. He...
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Dr Eric Cunningham Dax
Dr Eric Cunningham Dax (1908 – 2008) became head of Victoria’s Mental Hygiene Authority in 1952...
Read MoreDr Bertha Wood
One of the doctors at Mont Park in the 1920s and 1930s was Dr Bertha Wood (1888 – 1942). She was the third daughter and tenth child of Edward and Sarah Wood. Her father died on 1904 (aged 60 years) and her mother died in...
Read MoreIliya Bircanin – Senior Occupational Therapist, North Eastern Metropolitan Psychiatric Services
Iliya Bircanin, was born in Germany just after the war. His mother was German and his Polish father, a World War II prisoner of war in Germany, elected to migrate to Australia in 1947 when Iliya was just 6 months old. Iliya...
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