WOMAN DOCTOR
OLDEST IN THE WORLD
LONDON, Sept. 2
The “Observer” published ail interview with the centenarian Dr. Harriet Clisby, described as the world’s oldest woman doctor.
Dr. Clisby says she went to Australia. when she was seven. She lived in Adelaide in the ’forties in a small mud hut. The Governor lived in solitary splendour in the best hut. He I was Hie object of envy, not because of i the magnificence of the hut, but bei cause lie owned a cow.
Dr. Clisby afterward founded the first Australian magazine, the “Interpreter.” Chancing to receive a circular referring to the urgent need for women to take up medicine, she decided to become a doctor. She studied in Australia under a friend who was a surgeon, but was forced to go to America to secure practice, and did not return to Adelaide.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 18 September 1930, Page 5
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