Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 July 1944Vol. XIV, No. 12

Death Of Tropical Medical

p. 39 · Read in the full issue

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Expert

mHE man who introduced the study of A tropical medicine to Australia, Dr.

Anton Breinl, died in Sydney on June 28.

A graduate of Prague University, he joined the staff of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1904, went to Brazil in 1906, and came to Australia in 1909, joining the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine at Townsville. He retired in 1919.

He undertook several expeditions to Papua and the Northern Territory while at Townsville.

As a result of Dr. Breinl’s work, the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine was established at the Univer sity of Sydney and the Townsville school was transferred to Sydney.

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