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MS 7026
Records of Dr Joan Refshauge
Scope and Content Note
Papers
1931-1979
2.88 m. (15 boxes) + 1 folio
Available for reference
The papers were donated to the Library by Sir William
Refshauge in 1985 and 1989.
Papers mainly relating to Refshauge's service in the Territory
of Papua and New Guinea as a Medical Officer and Assistant
Director of the Infant, Child and Maternal Health Service.
Includes official correspondence, medical statistics, reports of
tours of inspection, papers on infant welfare training courses,
conference papers, health department circulars, articles,
lectures and addresses and surveys. The collection also contains
personal documents and correspondence and publications.
Biographical Note
Joan Janet Refshauge was born in Melbourne on 3 December 1906
and educated at University High School (Melbourne), Presbyterian
Ladies' College and the University of Melbourne, completing her
MSc (Chemistry and Mathematics) in 1929, Dip. Ed. in 1930, MBBS
in 1939 and a Diploma of Public Health (Sydney) in 1953. Dr
Refshauge was responsible for pioneering infant and maternal
health services in Papua New Guinea and oversaw the establishment
of health centres, pre-schools and training schools for nurses.
She had one son, Rupert.
| 1928-34 |
Staff member, Faculty of
Chemistry, University of Melbourne |
| 1937 |
Lecturer in mathematics,
Melbourne Technical School and mathematics teacher in
various public schools |
| 1937 |
May 19 married M. W. Bergin
(divorced 1948) |
| 1940-42 |
Residencies at Alfred
Hospital, Austin Hospital and Mildura Base Hospital |
| 1943-46 |
Captain, Royal Australian
Army Medical Corps |
| 1947-63 |
Medical Officer and
Assistant Director, Infant, Child and Maternal Health,
Department of Public Health, Territory of Papua and New
Guinea |
| 1964 |
Awarded Cilento Medal and
Order of the British Empire |
| 1964-68 |
Medical Officer, Maternal
and Child Welfare Service, Queensland Health Department |
| 1968-74 |
Deputy Director, Maternal
and Child Welfare Service, Queensland Health Department |
Box List
March 1985 consignment
Box 1
Folder |
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| 1 |
Personal papers |
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Letter to family from Diwanai, 1949. |
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Newspaper article - 'She's pioneer of health
service'. |
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Letter from R. F. Barwick, 1948, thanking for care
while in hospital. |
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Newspaper article - New Guinea Times Courier,
1963. |
| 2 |
Infant & Maternal Welfare draft annual reports,
1950-1962. |
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Correspondence re staffing the Infant &
Maternal Welfare division |
| 3 |
Correspondence re recruitment of nurses. |
| 4 |
Correspondence and reports, on New Ireland
depopulation, 1950. |
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Sundry mortality tables. |
| 5 |
Survey of Pre-school facilities and needs, 1952. |
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Brief on social work. |
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Pre-schools in New Guinea, 1959. |
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Child minding centres, report, 1962. |
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Pre-school bulletins, IV (1956), VI (1956), VIII
(1957), XVII (1960). |
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Letter from Gunther re Pre-schools, 1954. |
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| 6 & 7 |
Reports of Tours of Inspection |
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J.R., Rabaul and Bougainville, 1959. |
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J.R., Highlands, 1958. |
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J.R., Samarai, Lae, Madang, Solomon, Rabaul, 1948 and
Port Moresby (1948), by Miss Jones. |
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J.R., Rabaul, 1962. |
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J.R. & Sister Bignold, Manus, New Ireland, New
Britain, 1962. |
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Sister Bignold, Eastern Highlands, 1959. |
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J.R., Highlands, undated. |
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J.R., Saiho (Northern District), 1954. |
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J.R., New Britain, New Ireland & Lae, undated. |
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J.R., Daru, 1949. |
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Sister Schaefer, Milne Bay, 1963. |
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J. Hamilton, Nutrition survey, Sepik District, April
1956. |
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G.A. Rudge, Saiho transport problems, 1959. |
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J.R. Diaries of visits to Boru area 1952 and 1954 |
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Box 2
Folder |
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| 8 |
Infant welfare training course, year I |
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Syllabus. |
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Hints to trainees. |
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Lecture outlines. |
| 9 |
Infant welfare training course, year II |
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Lecture outllines. |
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Infant welfare training course, year III |
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Lecture outlines. |
| 10 |
Childcare & development syllabus, for use in
girls central schools & for pre-school trainees. |
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Reports on maternity surveys |
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Rabaul, 1950 (Dr. E. Wright?). |
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Lae, undated. Analysis of 200 pregnancies of native
women at Lae. |
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Native Schools' Syllabus, 1950. |
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| 11 |
Lectures, talks, and addresses by Dr Refshauge on
general health & infant care |
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Address to village women, undated. |
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Address to unspecified audience, undated (?1956?) |
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Address to unspecified audience, undated (?1956?) |
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J.R. on mothercraft, undated. |
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J.R. on the ear, undated. |
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J.R. on meat, undated. |
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J.R. inducting two nurses into a Health Centre,
undated. |
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J.R. in Tok Pisin, undated. |
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Notes for talks. |
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Address to Port Moresby Parents & Citizens. |
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Talk no. 2 on mothering. |
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Address to A.M. Conference 18 Nov. 1954. |
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| 12 |
Public Health Department (PHD) Circulars |
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Regulations under the Native Administration Ordinance
1921-1955. |
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Scabies. |
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Loss or destruction of stores or cash. |
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Avoidance of waste & conservation of
administration funds. |
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Infant welfare. |
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Administration works procedure. |
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DDSNA circulars proposed policy & working plan
for department of DASF in respect to native agriculture. |
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DASF policy statements |
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Wearing of clothes by natives. |
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Policy in relation to administrative activity
affecting change in native house style or location of
homestead, hamlet and village dwellers. |
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Native newspapers. |
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The principles of native administration and their
application. |
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Works Branch procedures. |
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Circulars re infantile gastro-enteritis, infectious
diarrhoea, smallpox and cholera. |
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Pharmaceutical Advisory Committee. |
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PHD staff meetings, 1957 (4) - Regional organisation. |
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| 13 |
PHD circulars on maternal & child care |
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Peanuts for infants. |
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Mother-to-be (2 copies) frequency. |
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Infant feeding & guide to nurses. |
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Hints to Native Mothers - English. |
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Hints to Native Mothers - Tok Pisin. |
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Hints to Native Mothers - Motu. |
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Infant feeding. |
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Poster on selecting and cooking vegetables. |
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Milk for Rauna. |
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The pregnant woman. |
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Heinz baby food information. |
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Box 3
Folder |
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| 14,15 |
International Conferences |
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ANZAAS circular. PNG Branch 1957. |
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Western Pacific School Health Programmes, 1961.
(WHO/UNESCO).
- Synthesis of country reports.
- Child health & the school, Manila, 1961. (3
papers). |
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Third South Pacific Conference, Refshauge's report,
undated (1954?). Infants & Maternal Welfare. |
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M. Timmer: Child mortality and population pressure in
the D.I. Jogjakarta in Java. |
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SPC training course in health education, 1957. |
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Response to a Conference: application of
recommendations to PNG. |
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| 16 |
Child Welfare Council |
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C.W.C. annual report for 1964-5. |
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Handbook on child welfare, 1965. |
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Rabaul Welfare Conference, July 1954. |
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C.W.C.: minutes of 5th meeting, July 1963. |
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Further thoughts of Refshauge on Child Welfare Act,
undated. |
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Memo to Director, PHD, 1959, on need for a Child
Welfare Act. |
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| 17 |
Report on No. 5 course for senior officers of TPNG,
ASOPA, 1960 on Urbanisation and urban problems of Papua
and New Guinea. |
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| 18 |
Advancement of native women |
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Memo from Refshauge to Scragg, August 1957. |
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Committee on advancement of native women, 1957. |
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PSC letter re advancement of native women, 1959. |
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Refshauge's draft response on advancement of native
women. |
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Reprinted articles |
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A cultural approach to South East Asia, Far
Eastern Quarterly, May 1945. |
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DDSNA circular, 1946, 'Steps toward Colonial
freedom'. |
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Carlos Romulo, 'Asia must be free'. |
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DDSNA circular, 1947, 'Cargo cults'. |
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DDSNA circular, 1946, 'The Colonial Service' &
social change. |
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A.P. Elkin's review of W.C. Groves' 'Native
Education', 1947. |
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Oceania, Mar. 1937. |
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South Pacific Post-Health Supplement, 7 June 1963. |
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Draft response to editor of 'Our Woman', 1962. |
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| 19 |
Infant & Maternal Welfare, internal circulars. |
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Anti-malarial drugs. |
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Milk & marmite. |
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Information for back of European clinic books. |
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Educational diet (3 copies). |
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Duties of welfare staff, 1953. |
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Facilities of Hanuabada. |
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Care of bottles and teats. |
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Infant diet sheets. |
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Malaria in native infants. |
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"Aid post medicine". |
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Proposal for psychology survey. |
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Proposal for Nurses Conference, 1955. |
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| 20 |
Miscellaneous papers |
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Territory of New Guinea, undated (pre 1942). |
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Major Vertigan, 'New Guinea', text of lecture, 1947. |
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The Territorian roneo newspaper, 28 June 1950. |
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Memo on Northern District roads, 1954. |
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Memo on Northern District buildings, 1954 (Saiko). |
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Correspondence re typhoid, 1953. |
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Heights & weights of Port Moresby European
children, 1953. |
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Bounties for multiple births, 1951. |
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Letter from A.B. MacDonald re leprosy, 1953. |
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IMW Monthly Report, Hanuabada, 1952, August. |
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Lutheran proposal for trainees to work under
Refshauge |
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Artificial food supplied, 1957-8. |
Addition 22 May 1989
Box 4
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piece |
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Personal documents, 1931-71
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| 21-23 |
University of Melbourne certificates, 1939;
references, 1939-40; record of military service, 1943-45;
certificate of service with the Australian Army Medical
Corps, 1946; demobilisation procedure book, 1946; bank
books, 1947-51; Diploma in Public Health certificate,
1954; passports, 1954-64; papers on the 1964 Cilento
Medal; papers relating to the death of her mother, 1971. |
| 24 |
Diary, 1949 |
| 25 |
Invitations, 1951-63 |
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Personal correspondence, 1950-79
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Box 5
Folder |
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| 26 |
Letters, 1951-76 |
| 27 |
Correspondence (including letters of introduction),
1930-48 |
| 28 |
Letters from Refshauge's son, Rupert, 1950-56 |
| 29-30 |
Correspondence, 1950-58 (some files contain official
correspondence, receipts and other papers) |
| 31-32 |
Correspondence, 1960-68 including letters of
congratulation on receiving OBE |
| 33 |
Correspondence, 1970-79 |
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Box 6
Folder |
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| 34 |
Undated personal correspondence |
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Medical Officer and Assistant
Director, Infant, Child and Maternal Health, Territory of
Papua and New Guinea, 1931-64
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| 35 |
Official correspondence, 1947-49 and undated |
| 36 |
Official correspondence, 1950-59 |
| 37 |
Official correspondence, 1960-64 |
| 38-41 |
Medical statistics and data including data from
surveys of villages and data on maternal deaths, child
mortality, births, deaths, child weights and heights,
1949-61 |
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Box 7
Folder |
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| 42-46 |
Medical statistics and data (cont.), 1949-61 |
| 47-48 |
Nursing lectures |
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Box 8
Folder |
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| 49 |
'Hints for nurses' |
| 50 |
Examinations and syllabus material on infant and
maternal welfare and midwifery, 1955-63 |
| 51 |
Other papers relating to training of nurses, 1955 |
| 52-53 |
Roneoed papers, mainly papers on infant and maternal
health produced by the Department of Public Health,
Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1947-60 |
| 54 |
World Health Organisation (WHO) - Commonwealth of
Australia seminar on mental health in childhood (Sydney,
1953) |
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| Box 9 |
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| 55 |
World Health Organisation Conference (Taiwan, 1954) |
| 56-58 |
WHO - Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
Nutrition Education and Health Education Seminar (Manila,
1955) |
| 59-60 |
Conference of Infant Welfare Nurses (Port Moresby,
1955) |
| 61 |
International Study Conference on the Child in the
Family (Tokyo, 1958) |
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Box 10
Folder |
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| 62 |
21st Meeting of the Nutrition Committee of the
National Health and Medical Research Council, 1961 |
| 63-64 |
WHO/UNESCO Seminar on Child Health and the School
(Manila, 1961) |
| 65 |
Seminar on Nutrition (Goroka, 1962) |
| 66-67 |
Miscellaneous conference papers, 1952-62 |
| 68 |
Other papers, 1931-49 including patrol and medical
officer reports and papers relating to the 1947 New
Guinea nutrition survey |
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Box 11
Folder |
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| 69-73 |
Correspondence, circulars and other papers, 1950-58
relating to the Pre-School Advisory Committee,
pre-schools and kindergartens, child deaths, notes from
1953 patrol reports, Infant and Maternal Welfare
(Territory of New Guinea) annual reports (1950-51 and
1955-56). |
| 74-76 |
Tour reports, speech, notes, correspondence and other
papers, 1960-64 relating to the 1960 senior officers
course, Pre-School Association and other subjects. |
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Box 12
Folder |
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| 77-83 |
Miscellaneous undated Papua New Guinea papers.
Includes 'Vocabulary: English-Motu' by G.W. Toogood,
'Papua and New Guinea recipe book', papers on tours of
the Territory, notes, typescripts and other papers |
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Box 13
Folder |
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Articles, talks, reports and
other writings
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| 84 |
Autobiographical writings, articles on child health
topics and a draft report on health and welfare in PNG |
| 85 |
Manuscripts on infant and maternal welfare;
manuscript entitled 'Diseases of Indonesia'; articles on
skin and breast cancer and other papers |
| 86 |
Draft articles on health issues, a report on a tour
of the New Guinea mainland, correspondence (1962), a
report on the role of the Infant, Child and Maternal
Health Service and a typescript 'Europeans in a plural
society'. |
| 87 |
Foreword for the Pre-School bulletin and
typescripts of articles on health issues, 1956 |
| 88 |
Drafts of 'The child of the working mother and
problem parents and his care to school age' |
| 89 |
Mothercraft talks |
| 90-91 |
Drafts of articles on health issues |
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Box 14
Folder |
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| 92-93 |
Reports on the Infant, Child and Maternal Health
Service and other topics |
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Maternal and Child Welfare
Service, Queensland Health Department
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| 94 |
Correspondence, 1964-73; timetables, radio interview
for 'Lets face it' (28 April 1966), nappy rash reports
and other papers |
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Other papers, 1939-70
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| 95-96 |
Course notes, assignments, handouts and other papers
relating to studies undertaken by Refshauge, 1939-c.1961 |
| 97 |
Sketches, receipts, photographs and cuttings, 1947-70 |
| 98 |
Miscellaneous papers, 1951-55 |
| 99 |
Correspondence and notebook of Marnie Refshauge
(Refshauge's mother), 1940-69 including letters from her
son William Refshauge written during World War II |
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Publications, 1938-67
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Box 15
Folder |
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| 100-01 |
Articles from The medical journal of Australia,
1958-59 |
| 102-03 |
Reports, periodicals, legislation, pamphlets etc,
1947-61 |
| 104 |
Periodicals and reports, 1954-67 |
| 105 |
Pamphlets, reports and other publications, 1938-62 |
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| Folio |
Posters on malaria, village sanitation, infant
welfare and nutrition. |
Guide prepared November 1997
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