| Contents | Health and History, 10.1 | The History Cooperative

Volume 10 • Number 1

2008

Staff

Editorial

Ten Years and More of Health & History	1
Warwick H. Anderson

Articles

Medical Inspection of State Schoolchildren in Australia, c. 1905–14	5
F.B. Smith

In the 'Grey Battalion': Launceston General Hospital Nurses on Active Service in World War I	21
Kirsty Harris

Fantome Island Lock Hospital and Aboriginal Venereal Disease Sufferers 1928–45	41
Meg Parsons

Determining the Meaning behind Historical Disease Terminology through an Examination of Patterns of Terminology used in the Mortality Statistics of Victoria, 1853–1900	63
Phillip Roberts

Breasts for Hire and Shared Breastfeeding: Wet Nursing and Cross Feeding in Australia, 1900–2000	88
Virginia Thorley

The Value of an Infant: The Rise of Paediatrics in Australia, 1880–1910	110
Lisa Featherstone

Reflections, Memories and Sources

Fleas, Ruby and the Power of Chiropractic	134
Barry C. Draper

Exhibition Reviews

Medical Students and Indonesian Independence	149
Hans Pols

Country Doctors	154
Judith Cornell

Book Reviews

Advancing with the Army: Medicine, the Professions, and Social Mobility in the British Isles 1790–1850 by Marcus Ackroyd, Laurence Brockliss, Michael Moss, Kate Retford, and John Stevenson/ Douglas Simes	157

Recovering Art: A History of the Cunningham Dax Collection by Belinda Robson/ Mark Finnane	158

The Scalpel and the Kukri: A Surgeon and his Family's Adventures among the Gurkhas by Peter Pitt/ Susan Heydon	161

The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914 by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe/ Catharine Coleborne	162

Surgeon, Scientist, Soldier: The Life and Times of Henry Wade 1876–1955 by Dugald Gardner/ Derek Dow	164

Obituary

Eric Cunningham Dax (1908–2008); A Tribute	167
Ann Westmore


Contributors	172

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