HALLEY, IDA GERTRUDE MARGARET (1867-1939), medical officer and feminist, was
born on 1 August 1867 at Ballarat West, Victoria, daughter of Rev. Jacob John
Halley and his wife Margaret, née Fletcher. Educated at the Presbyterian Ladies'
College, she was among the first women medical students at the University of
Melbourne (M.B., B.S., 1896). After graduation she practised with Dr Kent Hughes
of Melbourne and was active as a founder and treasurer of the Queen Victoria
Hospital for Women. She became honorary surgeon there and a specialist in eye and
ear work, a field she had researched in London and Shanghai, China.
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Gertrude Halley was a founder and treasurer of the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women. An eye and ear specialist, she was an honorary surgeon at the hospital. In 1913 she established the medical branch of the Education Department in South Australia.
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Ida Gertrude M. Halley became a medical inspector of schools in Tasmania (1906) and from 1910 held a similar position in Sydney where she lectured on hygiene at the Teachers' College. In 1913 she established the medical branch of the Education Department in South Australia.
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