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In 1944, pre-school activities including payment of subsidies to free kindergartens were also placed under
Scantlebury Brown's supervision, and her vision and enthusiasm achieved a further success in 1945, when the State Government decided to bring under the Health Department the care of expectant
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lecturer (later associate professor) Dr. Edward Byam Brown on 18 September 1926, and they had two children. She was appointed the first
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Victoria in 1919 and worked in a variety of honorary positions including an honorary anaesthetist at the Women's Hospital, and honorary clinical assistant at the Children's Hospital, an honorary physician/surgeon at the
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to conduct a survey of the welfare of women and children in New
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wanted to improve the health of kindergarten children. They organised visits by dentists and doctors and they created the Forest Hill holiday-home
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