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Australian physician (1872?1939)
Jane Stocks "Jean" Greig
(12 June 1872 ? 16 September 1939) was a Scottish-Australian
medical doctor
and
public health
specialist.
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Early life and education
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Jane Stocks Greig was born in 1872 in
Cupar
, Scotland, the oldest of eight children of
textile
merchant and higher education advocate Robert Greig, and his wife Jane Stocks (nee Macfarlane) (1848-1902). She had five sisters and three brothers -
Janet Lindsay
(1874-1950), Clara Puella (1877-1957),
Flos Greig
(1880-1958), James Arthur (1882-1935), Ernest Howard (1884-1972), Hector Maximus (1887-1979) and Stella Fida (1889-1913).
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She was educated at the
High School of Dundee
and while she was in Dundee her father wrote to his brother to check that women would be allowed to study medicine in Melbourne. He was told that it was possible and the family migrated to
Melbourne
,
Australia
in 1889 where she then attended
Brunswick Ladies College
. With her father's support and encouragement both she and her sister
Janet
enrolled at the medical school of the University of Melbourne in 1891.
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She graduated with a
Bachelor of Medicine
in 1895, and completed her
Bachelor of Surgery
with honours in 1896.
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Career
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After leaving university, she worked in
general practice
in the Melbourne suburbs of
Brighton
and
Fitzroy
, and in 1896 founded the
Victorian Medical Women's Society
. She was a founding member of the
Queen Victoria Hospital
in 1896 and was an honorary medical staff member at the hospital until 1910.
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Greig returned to the University of Melbourne to study for a Diploma of Public Health; when she completed the degree in 1910 she became the first woman at the university to do so.
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She went on to work for the
Victorian Department of Education
as a medical officer, providing healthcare services for schoolchildren. She was promoted to the department's
Chief Medical Officer
in 1929.
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From 1924 to 1925, she was a commissioner on the
Royal Commission on Health
.
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She visited a number of countries to give talks on types medical and dental inspection, and published numerous articles and reports in the
Medical Journal of Australia
. She was a lecturer in hygiene at the
University of Melbourne
and at the Teachers' Training College from 1916 to 1939.
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Death and legacy
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Greig died from cancer in 1939 in
Richmond, Victoria
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She was inducted into the
Victorian Honour Roll of Women
in 2007,
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and in 2012 she was featured in an Australian postage stamp series titled "Medical Doctors".
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