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Dorothy Kell Finnis

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She served on several committees of the Crippled Children's Association of South Australia and was president from 1945 to 1957 of the Spastic Children's Parents' Group, later known as the Crippled Children's Auxiliary (Spastic Group).
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and opened a private physiotherapy practice which she maintained until a few weeks before her death. She was in 1958 a foundation member of the Physiotherapy Society of South Australia.
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in 1953 in recognition of her services as President of the Crippled Children's Auxiliary (Spastic Centre), and invested by the Queen during her 1954 Australian tour.
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at the Children's Hospital. She was from 1952 to 1965 the university's representative on the Physiotherapists' Board of South Australia.
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Finnis was a knowledgeable music lover, having studied piano at an advanced level, and was from 1932 a member of Adelaide's
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She was in 1965 made a life member of the Children's Hospital house committee in recognition of her service dating from 1948.
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She was a regular church-goer, an adherent of the Church of England and, with her husband, a foundation member of the
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was one of South Australia's first physiotherapists, and known for her treatment of children afflicted with
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of affected limbs. Finnis however was convinced of the efficacy of treatments espoused by
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erroneously referred to as president of the Crippled Children's Association.
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In 1924 she qualified for a diploma from the South Australian branch of the
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and his wife Frances Isabella Simpson, née Kell. She was educated at
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where she was head prefect and editor of the school magazine.
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in 1936. They lived at the cathedral vicarage, moving to
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in 1955. They had no children. She died in hospital of
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Dorothy Simpson married the widowed Rev., later Canon,
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Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire
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Index


MBE
poliomyelitis
Unley Park, South Australia
Alfred Edward Simpson
Walford House School
Australasian Massage Association
Adelaide Children's Hospital
anterior poliomyelitis
immobilization
Sister Kenny
physiotherapy
University of Adelaide
paediatrics
M.B.E.
Tatlers Club
Friends of St Peter's Cathedral
Horace Percy Finnis
St. Peter's Cathedral
J. M. Dunn
Rose Park
myocardial infarction
North Road cemetery
Simpson family
Audrey Abbie
"Australian Massage Association"
The Advertiser (Adelaide)


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