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207641
Surname: Dick
First Name: Dr. Robert
Ship: -
Date: 14 March 1914
Place: Stockton
Source: Maitland Weekly Mercury
Details: A case of smallpox has been reported from Stockton. The patient is a coal timmer by occupation but occasionally does some book making. He has attended several country race meetings latterly. Since Saturday week last he has been under treatment by Dr. Grieves of Stockton, who on Friday diagnosed the case as smallpox. On Saturday the diagnosis was confirmed by Dr. Robert Dick, Medical Officer for Health and during the day the patient was removed with his wife and children to the quarantine hospital, North Stockton
207648
Surname: Dick
First Name: Dr. Robert
Ship: -
Date: 2 March 1898
Place: Hunter River district
Source: Evening News
Details: Appointed medical officer of health for the Hunter River combined districts at a salary of 700 pounds
207649
Surname: Dick
First Name: Dr. Robert
Ship: -
Date: 12 March 1898
Place: Hunter River district
Source: Windsor and Richmond Gazette
Details: Dr. Dick, for three years at Gulgong, has just been appointed as one of two officers under the new Health Act, at £700 a year, his duty being to see to the gradual adoption of the Act to the Hunter River district. Dr. Dick, since leaving Gulgong, has gone home for the purpose of completing his studies in public health, so that he is well qualified for his new position. Dr. Dick is a son of Mr. J. A. Dick, post and telegraph-master at Windsor, nephew to Mr. R. Dick, J.P., of Sunny Brae, Windsor, and brother to Dr. James Dick, of Randwick. His friends in this district will be glad to hear of his appointment to such a high and important office, if only because he is a native of the Hawkesbury.
207650
Surname: Dick
First Name: Dr. Robert
Ship: -
Date: 25 June 1898
Place: Enfield Sydney
Source: Windsor and Richmond Gazette
Details: Dr. Robert Dick, son of Mr. J. A. Dick, Post and telegraph master at Windsor, was married to Miss Julia Pilcher, daughter of Mr. H. C. Pilcher of Kenton Strathfield. The marriage ceremony took place at St. Thomas Church Enfield
207651
Surname: Dick
First Name: Dr. Robert
Ship: -
Date: 13 October 1954
Place: -
Source: Newcastle Sun
Details: In Health Week, it is fitting to remember our first Government Medical Officer, the late Dr. Robert Dick. He was appointed in May 1898 and he held the post for nearly 25 years. He had an area of 4000 square miles to administer and he had to fight several outbreaks of typhoid, bubonic plague and small pox to battle for better milk, for measures to improve baby welfare and for councils to get behind sewerage schemes. Yet he found time to fish in every river and stream in his district. Travelling mostly by horse and buggy, he would camp wherever night found him
207654
Surname: Dick
First Name: Dr. Robert
Ship: -
Date: -
Place: Hunter River District
Source: Patricia Morison, Dick, James Adam (1866–1942), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
Details: Dr Robert Dick (1869-1943), brother of Dr. James Dick, worked in a team under Dr J. Ashburton Thompson, which demonstrated to the world how this scourge could be beaten. Robert Dick became director-general of public health for New South Wales in 1924-34. After service with the British Army in World War I, he had retired from the Australian Military Forces as colonel in 1925.
207655
Surname: Dick
First Name: Dr. Robert
Ship: -
Date: 27 September 1894
Place: Hunter River district
Source: Newcastle Sun
Details: Before the Hunter Water and Sewer age Board was established in 1899 the hygiene of the district was in a shocking state and the deaths from what were so vaguely termed fevers was very high. In one area the infantile death rate was one in three! In the previous year, Dr. Robert Dick had been appointed Medical Officer of Health for Newcastle and the Lower Hunter area with the idea of combating the high incidence of these fevers and other diseases. Then the total population of the area was about 70,000. Dr. Dick had a very big job ahead of him in the 4000 square miles of his area. In 1899 the position was that only the city area was sewered. One of his earliest efforts was to get the various councils to agree to a combined scheme. Some did and some did not. How ever, under the leadership of Dr. Dick, health officers and the Water Board gradually won so that today the incidence of typhoid and similar diseases is very low. There was a general clean up of conditions in addition to sewerage extensions. Before that milk inspection was lax, garbage disposal abominable and there was very little baby welfare. Generally hygiene was in a poor state.
207656
Surname: Dick
First Name: Dr. Robert
Ship: -
Date: 29 January 1915
Place: Boulogne, France
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: AUSTRALIANS IN FRANCE. THE HOSPITAL WORK Major Dr. Robert Dick, who is attached to the Australian Voluntary Hospital of the British Expeditionary Forces at Boulogne, writes to a Newcastle friends an interesting letter, under date December 16th. Major Dick arrived in England a month before the opening of hostilities upon ten months vacation from his duties as medical officer of the Hunter district for the Board of Health, and on the outbreak of war he immediately placed his services at the disposal of the military authorities. The Australian Voluntary Hospital is composed entirely of Australians, and Colonel W. L. Eames, also of Newcastle, is in charge. Dr. R. V. McDon- nell, formerly senior resident medical officer of the Newcastle Hospital, is also a member of the staff, and Nurse Greaves, also of the Newcastle Hospital, is the matron in charge of the nursing staff. In the course of his letter Dr. Dick says: - We have not been quite so busy lately There has been very little fighting going on, at any rate at this side of the battle front, and consequently there has been very few wounded, but we have had a good number of medical cases; rheumatism and frostbite. I anticipate shortly that there will be further severe fighting, and we shall get our share of the wounded, as was the case a few weeks ago. Our hospital takes 100 cases altogether. There are about twelve military hospitals at Boulogne and its neighbourhood, and they have between them accommodation for about 4000 patients. We are about three miles out of Boulogne to the north of it. The hospital is right on the sea front, and one can throw a stone into the sea from the roadway which passes in front of the building. We are on the English Channel, and on a fine day which is extremely rare, we can easily see the cliffs of Dover and Folkstone. We have been having dreadful weather, for the past few weeks rain every day, and it is very seldom that one sees the sun. The days are extremely short, it is just light at 7 a.m, and dark at 4.30 p.m. The wind blows very strong, and the weather is very cold. It is very fortunate, I think, that the Australian contingent has been drafted to Egypt, instead of being brought to England to do their training in the midwinter, and besides, their presence in Egypt may be need- ed in fighting against the Turks. We have often thought we should like to get our hospital attached to the Australians, but whether that can ever happen remains to be seen. The Australians appears to have brought with them a very large section of the A.M.C. The papers say they have accommodation for 2000 patients. It is to be hoped that they are fitted out with motor ambulances, for they are absolutely necessary in this sort of war. The number of casualties is so great that with horse-drawn vehicles it is impossible to remove the wounded quickly enough. This has proved the value of motor vehicles of all sorts; for guns, supplies, ambulances, etc., etc., of course it depends upon the number and conditions of the roads