Sir Raphael W. Cilento
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AMONG the list of recipients of New Year Honours was Dr. Raphael West Cilento, M.D., B.S. (Adelaide), D.T.M. and H. (London), Director-General of Health in Queensland, who is well known in Melanesia for his work in con nection with tropical hygiene. He was created a Knight Bachelor.
Born in South Australia in 1893, Dr.
Cilento joined the A.I.F. in 1915 and at tained the rank of captain in the Austra lian Army Medical Corps. In 1920 he was appointed by the British Colonial Service to the Malay States, from whence a year later he accepted appointment to the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine.
The following year he was made Director of the Institute. In 1925 he was trans ferred to New Guinea as Director of Public Health and remained there for three years.
Dr. Cilento last year presented his rare collection of Melanesian brains and New Guinea skulls to the Australian Institute of Anatomy. Included in this collection were some of the most perfect known specimens of primitive surgery by stone age people.