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Surname: Fisher
First Name: Dr. Walter
Ship: -
Date: 12 January 1932
Place: Cessnock
Source: The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder
Details: Cessnock s first medical man was Dr. Walter Fisher. Before coming to Cessnock Dr. Fisher was at Abermain. Later on Dr. Crooke set up practice in Main Street Cessnock
207676
Surname: Fisher
First Name: Dr. Walter
Ship: -
Date: 12 November 1904
Place: Weston
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Dr. Walter Fisher has been appointed Government Medical Officer for the district. Dr. Fisher resides at Weston and is medical officer to several miners lodges. During his brief residence in the district he has found time to take an active interest in the progress of Weston
207677
Surname: Fisher
First Name: Dr. Walter
Ship: -
Date: 7 February 1905
Place: Weston - Maitland
Source: Newcastle Morning Herald
Details: Maitland Hospital - A letter was received from Dr. Walter Fisher, Government Medical Officer, at Weston, offering his services as honorary visiting medical officer of the Maitland Hospital. The writer explained that he had recently been hon. medical officer to Brisbane Hospital, to the Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution, and in the Prevention of Cruelty Society, and Health Officer to the city of South Brisbane. He was also a surgeon in the Commonwealth Naval Defence force. The offer was accepted on the motion of Mr. Crothers, seconded by Mr. Herrmann
207675
Surname: Fisher (obit)
First Name: Dr. Walter
Ship: -
Date: 4 April 1938
Place: Goulburn
Source: Goulburn Evening Penny Post
Details: The death occurred at St. John of God Hospital on Saturday morning, of Dr. Walter Fisher, aged 81, father of Mrs. A. P. Gillespie,. of Clifford Street, Goulburn. Dr. Fisher, who had been in falling health for some time, lived at. Manly, but had come to Goulburn for some weeks, when it. was found necessary that he should enter hospital. Born in Melbourne, Dr. Fisher became a dispenser at the Prince Alfred Hospital there, and later with his young wife, travelled, to England by the sailing ship Ellora. Mr. Fisher, as he then was, went as a kind of adviser to the captain of the vessel, who, was not in the best of health. The trip lasted four months and took them round Cape Horn. They experienced a very rough and exciting voyage. Arriving in Scotland, Mr. Fisher studied medicine, at the Edinburgh University, where he secured his degree. He came to Australia and for many years practised in Brisbane where he was Government Medical Officer. He was the first doctor to diagnose the outbreak of bubonic plague in Queensland. He was also a surgeon in the Queensland Navy before the days of Federation. He went to Victoria, but ultimately came to New South Wales, practising at Walgett and for many years at Mayfield, Newcastle. All his life Dr. Fisher had taken the keenest of interest in politics and the influence of legislation on people. He retired to Manly, giving the whole of his time to the preparation of articles, books and booklets on these subjects. He was in correspondence with many of the leading figures in world politics, Mr. Anthony Eden being among them. He was in touch also with all the Australian political leaders. Dr. Fisher leaves a widow, two sons, Mr. Athol Fisher, of Manly, and Mr. Julian Fisher, of Sydney; and one daughter, Mrs. Gillespie.