DALYELL, ELSIE JEAN (1881-1948), pathologist, was born on 13 December 1881 at
Newtown, Sydney, second daughter of James Melville Dalyell, mining engineer, and
his wife Jean, née McGregor. Educated at Sydney Girls' High School under Lucy
Garvin, she joined the Department of Public Instruction as a pupil-teacher in
1897. Sponsored by the department she completed first year arts and science at the
University of Sydney. She suffered a hysterectomy in 1905, and next year resigned
as a teacher and transferred to second-year medicine. Entering the Women's College
in 1909, she graduated M.B. with first-class honours that year and Ch.M. in 1910.
With Mary Burfitt, she followed Jessie Aspinall as a pioneer female resident
medical officer at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. In 1911-12 Elsie Dalyell was the
first woman on the full-time medical school staff as demonstrator in pathology,
and in December 1912 the first Australian woman elected to a Beit fellowship,
which she took up at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, London.
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Elsie Dalyell was born on 13 December 1881, the second daughter of James Melville and Jean (née McGregor) Dalyell. After being educated at Sydney Girl's High School, in 1897 she became a pupil-teacher with the Department of Public Instruction. In 1904, sponsored by the department, Elsie Dalyell commenced an arts and science degree at the University of Sydney. She resigned as a teacher in 1905 and transferred to second year medicine. After graduating with first-class honours, Elsie Dalyell became a medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.
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Elsie Jean Dalyell was the first female full-time demonstrator at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney 1911-12. She studied and worked in Europe 1912-23 and on return to Australia became a microbiologist with the Department of Public Health, Sydney 1924-46.
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