Helen Mayo
Helen Mary Mayo, OBE was an Australian medical doctor and medical educator, born and raised in Adelaide. In 1896, she enrolled at the University of Adelaide, where she studied medicine. After graduating, Mayo spent two years working in infant health in England, Ireland and India. She returned to Adelaide in 1906, starting a private practice and taking up positions at the Adelaide Childrens Hospital and Adelaide Hospital. In 1909, she cofounded the School for Mothers, where mothers could receive advice on infant health. This organisation, which became the Mothers and Babies Health Association in 1927, eventually established branches across South Australia and incorporated a training school for maternal nurses. In 1914, after unsuccessfully campaigning for the Childrens Hospital to treat infants, Mayo cofounded the Mareeba Hospital for infants.
Helen Mary Mayo was born in Adelaide, Australia onOctober 1878. She was the eldest of the seven children of George Gibbes Mayo, a civil engineer, and Henrietta Mary Mayo, ne Donaldson, and granddaughter of George Mayo, a prominent Adelaide doctor. Her formal education commenced at the age of 10, when she began receiving regular lessons with a tutor. At the age of 16, she was enrolled in the Advanced School for Girls on Grote Street , from which she matriculated after one year, at the end of 1895.
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