Doctors
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Importance of Doctors
There were very few centres with doctors in the Kelly Country. The importance of doctors have not changed. But the practice of medicine has changed greatly. Nearly all the qualified doctors had been trained in England or Scotland.
Beechworth was about the only town in the Kelly country with a large hospital, but there were hospitals in Kilmore andWangaratta. Smaller towns such as Alexandra and Mansfield had a cottage hospital.
The newspapers were full of advertisement for various pills and other treatments.
This was a time when many children died from disease and mothers died in child birth.
Diphtheria, scarlet fever and whooping cough were a constant threat (Alexandra1/6/1878)
Men died from accidents on farms and there were many accidents involving horses.
Towns with doctors the Kelly Country
Doctors in the Kelly Country
Bowen Dr - ,
Brock Edward Dr
Cheyne Dr
Cleary Martin Francis Dr
Cobbett Robert Newberry Dr
Crouch George James Dr
Deshon Frederick Peter
Fergusson Dr -
Fitzgerald Thomas Naghten Dr
Fox Dr
Geary Henry Dr
Gillbee Dr
Gummow Benjamin W Dr
Gray Sexton Dr O'Hara Henry L Dr
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Pestell James Dr
Poulton Benjamin Dr
Reed James Dr
Reynolds Samuel Dr -
Rohner Charles William Dr
Ryan Charles Dr
Semple William Henry Dr
Shrapnel Joseph Needham S Dr
Smith Samuel Dr
Walker George Richard
Haley Dr
Hayden James A Dr
Hester Dr
Hill Joseph Higham Dr
Hutchinson Bengamin C Dr
Hutchinson Berkeley W
Keatinge Jeffery J Dr
Kelly Dr
Langford William Dr
McMullen William Dr
Miller William H Dr
Muller Dr
Newbould Edmund Dr
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Links to the KellyGang
The families of the KellyGang seldom had opportunity to see a doctor. Most mothers gave birth at home and few could afford a doctor. The Government engaged the services of one of the best surgeons in the colony, Dr Charles Ryan, and brought him up to Glenrowan to look after Ned Kelly. He needed to be kept alive so he could be tried and hung.
In 1876 there was a Scartel Fever scare
