Herbert Schlink

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Sir Herbert Henry "Bertie" Schlink (born March 28, 1883 in Wodonga , Victoria , Australia ; † November 30, 1962 ) was an Australian physician , hospital manager and health politician . He was also active as a winter sports enthusiast.

Live and act

Herbert Schlink was a son of the German trader and later winemaker Albert Schlink. Albert Schlink was born in Paderborn in 1840 , came to Australia for the first time in 1865, then returned to Germany and married Maria Francesca nee. Trudewind, with whom he finally moved to Australia in 1868. Herbert Schlink was born there on March 28, 1883, the seventh of eight children. He attended the public school in Wodonga and until 1900 St. Patrick's College in Goulburn , New South Wales . At St. John's College, University of Sydney , he obtained a Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and in 1907 a Master of Surgery (Ch.M.).

At the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital , a teaching hospital in Sydney , he became Junior Resident Medical Officer in 1907, Assistant Superintendent in 1909 and Superintendent in 1911. In 1912 he opened his own practice on Macquarie Street in Sydney.

In 1908 he joined the Australian Army Medical Corps and in 1914 was commander of a company that was deployed in the Liverpool Military Camp in 1915 . After investigations in the federal parliament, the Chief Justice George Rich determined that it was inappropriate to appoint an officer of German origin as a commander and Schlink was removed from the camp despite his declarations of loyalty. He was listed on the officers' list until 1919.

From 1922 he was a gynecological surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He specialized in the treatment of abdominal cancer , which he initially purely surgical and later combined with radiation by cobalt radiation treated. He developed statistical methods for the systematic follow-up care of cancer patients. In 1928 he attended the Congress of the American College of Surgeons in Boston and gave a lecture there on cigarette smoking by women. In 1927 he was a co-founder of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons . In 1937 he traveled over the Suez Canal to Greece and Naples, from there to Russia, France, Scandinavia and England. In Paris he familiarized himself with new technical possibilities. In 1939 Angus & Robertson published his textbook Gynecology , which was reissued in revised and expanded editions in 1949 and 1955.

Herbert Schlink married the doctor Margaret "Meg" born in Saint Mary's Cathedral in 1945 . Mulvey (1916-2001). He died on November 30, 1962 and was buried in Mona Vale .

The Australian painter Frederick William "Fred" Leist (1873–1945) painted portraits of Schlink that are in the King George V Memorial Hospital and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. The Hungarian-Australian sculptor Andor Mészáros , whom Schlink supported from 1940, created the statue The Surgeon on behalf of Schlink in 1944 , which was placed at the entrance of the King George V Memorial Hospital. After Schlink's death, he created a bust that is in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Health policy activity

1925 Schlink became director of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital; from 1934 to 1962 he was chairman of the hospital administration. In that capacity, he oversaw the opening of Gloucester House, King George V Memorial Hospital for Mothers and Babies (1958), a nursing home, neurosurgery and psychiatric unit, the Page Breast Pavilion and a hospital chapel in Camperdown .

He suggested supplementing hospital funding with nonprofit insurance programs. In 1932 he was a founding member of the Hospital Contribution Fund. In 1936 he introduced a three-tier system of private, medium and publicly funded accommodation. In 1940 he published The hospital problem of the metropolitan and suburban area of ​​Sydney . Under his leadership, the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (called Schicktown ) became the country's premier teaching hospital.

In 1946 he was the founding president of the Australian Hospital Association and published the magazine Australian Modern Hospital from 1949 to 1956 . In 1947 he co-founded the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia. In 1951 he was a founding member of the Blue Cross Association of Australia, became an honorary member of the American Hospital Association and Australian representative in the International Hospital Federation .

He also advised politicians Earle Page and Robert Menzies on health policy .

Non-professional activity

Schlink was active in winter sports, he was also known as the "Father of Australian Skiing". In 1909 he was a member of the foundation and until 1920 president of the Kosciuzko Alpine Club . In the resulting Ski Club of Australia he was vice president from 1920 to 1930 and president from 1931. From 1910 he was a member of the Ski Club of Great Britain and from 1928 an honorary member of the Kandahar Ski Club of Mürren in Switzerland.

On July 28, 1927, as the leader of the group with Eric Fisher, William Gordon, William Hughes and John Laidley, he passed the main ridge of the Snowy Mountains from Kiandra to the Kosciuszko Hotel for the first time . In 1960 the pass between Guthega and Geehi was named Schlink Pass after him. The Schlink Pass Road from Guthega Road on the Snowy River to the Geehi Reservoir of the Geehi River is about 30 kilometers long and the Schlink Hut mountain hut is also located on it.

Schlink was also a member of the Royal Sydney Golf Club in Rose Bay .

Memberships and honors

Fonts

  • Ski-ing experiences in Europe, 1929. Sydney & Melbourne Publications, Sydney 1929, OCLC 10265869 .
  • Present position of surgery, radium and X rays in gynecology. 1936, OCLC 642695960 .
  • Gynecology. Angus & Robertson, Sydney / London 1939. New editions: 1949, 1955, OCLC 216729636 .
  • The hospital problem of the metropolitan and suburban area of ​​Sydney. Australasian Medical Publishing, Sydney 1940, OCLC 217268342 .
  • with WD Cunningham: Gynecology lectures. Sections 1 & 2 to nurses in training. Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, NSW 1950, OCLC 221060578 .
  • Cancer of the Cervix Uteri. Australian Results, 1930-1950. In: BJOG - An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology . 57, 5, 1950, pp. 714-720, OCLC 5155910435 .
  • Cancer of the Female Pelvis. In: BJOG - An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 67, 3, 1960, pp. 402-410, OCLC 5155938868 .

literature

  • Albert James Perier: Portrait of Dr. Herbert Schlink (?), President of the Ski Club of Australia, Mount Kosciusko. Circa 1926, OCLC 730620519 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cigarette Smoking. Effect on Women on pittwateronlinenews.com
  2. ^ History of Midwifery at King George V & RPA. (PDF; 593 kB)
  3. ↑ Margaret Mulvey (Lady Schlink) on pittwateronlinenews.com
  4. ^ The Surgeon - A sculpture by Andor Meszaros. In: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 45, 2, 2005, pp. 100-101.
  5. ↑ Herbert Henry Schlink on pittwateronlinenews.com
  6. ↑ Sir Herbert Henry Schlink on monumentaustralia.org.au
  7. ↑ Sir Herbert Henry Schlink on trove.nla.gov.au
  8. ↑ a b Schlink, Herbert Henry on the website of the University of Sydney
  9. ^ Herbert Henry Schlink papers on skiing, 1900–1955 at archival.sl.nsw.gov.au
  10. ↑ Alan D'Hervey Egville: The Kandahar Ski Club of Murren , page 17 (PDF, 589 kB).
  11. ↑ Part 8.3 - Ski Touring in the Snowy Mountains Pre-1980 on australianalpineclub.com
  12. ↑ Peter Prineas: Wild Places: Wilderness in Eastern New South Wales. Colong Foundation for Wilderness, Sydney 1997, ISBN 0-85881-158-8 , p. 144 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  13. ↑ Gynecology on copac.jisc.ac.uk
personal data
SURNAME Schlink, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlink, Herbert Henry (full name); Schlink, Herbert H .; Schlink, Bertie (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian medic, hospital manager, health politician and winter sports enthusiast
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Wodonga , Victoria , Australia
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1962