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Letter to the editor from Dagmar Berne, 24 July...

Letter to the editor from Dagmar Berne, 24 July 1900

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[Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July 1900, p 11 via Trove]

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Berne, Dagmar

Dagmar Berne was the first female student of medicine at Sydney University and a pioneering doctor. Confronted by prejudice, she was obliged to travel overseas to qualify. She gained world-class degrees and was feted on her return to Sydney, yet was denied access to employment in general hospitals. She established a private practice, lectured, and worked with women's organisations to progress women's health in Sydney, before tuberculosis forced her to move to Springwood, and then Trundle, where she died suddenly in 1900

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Berne, Dagmar

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First female student to study medicine in Australia, who, during her short life, pioneered women's health services in Sydney.

Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales

Campaigning group, formed in 1891 out of the Women's Literary Society, that led the fight for women's suffrage in New South Wales, under the motto 'Equality is equity'.

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