Collection 09: Dr Kelvin Grose papers relating to Dr Susie O'Reilly, compiled 1991

MLMSS 9278

sub-fonds

1991

1071037

0.05 metres of textual material (1 box)

Susannah Hennessy (Susie) O'Reilly (1881-1960), physician, was born on 25 January 1881 in Sydney, eldest daughter of Dr Walter William Joseph O'Reilly and his wife Mary Narcissa, nee Taylor. She was educated at Methodist Ladies College, Burwood, and the University of Sydney (B.Sc., 1903; M.B., Ch.M., 1905).

In 1905 Dr O'Reilly failed to be appointed Resident Medical Officer at Sydney Hospital, discriminated against on the grounds of her sex. She spent from 1905 to 1907 as Resident Medical Officer at Royal Adelaide Hospital, the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, and the Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington, Sydney. She then joined her father, Dr W. W. J. O’Reilly, at his Pymble practice where she remained until she retired in 1948. During this period she retained her rooms in Liverpool Street, Sydney.

Dr O'Reilly was a co-founder of the New South Wales Association of Registered Medical Women, which established the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children where she was consulting physician from 1926 to 1941.

Reference:
Compiled from the collection

Papers, 1905-1991, being research material, including notes, correspondence with Bernie Keating and I. F. Wyatt, and photocopied articles, clippings and documents