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10 April 2012 Medical Doctors
60c Chris O’Brien AO 60c Fred Hollows AC 60c Victor Chang AC 60c Dame Kate Campbell 60c Jane Stocks Greig
Issue highlights
Individually numbered and limited
to 7,500, the stamp and medallion
cover features three of the subjects
– Chris O’Brien, Fred Hollows and
Victor Chang.
This stamp issue honours fi ve remarkable clinicians who have
contributed to making our health system one of the best in the
world.
Dr Jane (Jean) Stocks Greig (1872–1939) was a public
health specialist. In 1896, with her sister Janet, she founded
Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Hospital. She helped improve
the health and dental standards of Victorian school children
and her administrative positions included membership of the
secretariat of the Victorian Baby Health Centres Association
and the Council of Public Education.
Like Greig, paediatrician Dame Kate Campbell (1899–1986)
was a graduate of the medical school of the University of
Melbourne. A specialist in children’s diseases, Campbell proved
the link between retrolental fi broplasia (a type of blindness in
premature babies) and oxygen levels in humidicribs. She was
appointed to the Order of the British Empire in 1971.