Dr Joseph Bancroft and Dr Thomas Lane Bancroft papers
Collection
Joseph Bancroft's collection contains papers relating to his appointment to act as the Queensland delegate at the Intercolonial Sanitary Conference held in Sydney in September 1884 for the purpose of discussing the question of general quarantine establishments to prevent the introduction of infectious diseases; and an illuminated address, presented to him by the Nottingham Naturalists Society
Dr Joseph Bancroft (1836-1894) was born in Manchester and studied at the Manchester Royal School of Medicine and Surgery. He practiced in Nottingham, where his son Thomas Lane was born in 1860. To improve his health Bancroft was advised to move to a warmer climate and migrated to Brisbane in 1864, where he became an eminent doctor and participated in many public activities of a medical or scientific nature. He was the first president of the section of hygiene and public health of the Australasian Association of the Advancement of Science; and was chosen to represent Queensland at the Intercolonial Sanitary Conference in Sydney in September 1884 to discuss the question of quarantine establishments to prevent the introduction of infectious diseases.
Out of copyright.