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Hutson, Andrew William Medwyn


Qualifications
MB BS Melb (1934) MD Melb (1937) MRACP (1939) MRACP (1973)
Born
12/05/1912
Died
01/11/1984

Andrew Hutson was born at Boonah, Queensland, on 12 May 1912. His father was,also Andrew Hutson, a minister of religion, and his mother was Violet Mary Moffat. Andrew studied at the Perth Modern School and the University of Melbourne and was a medical student at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He qualified MB BS with first class honours and obtained his MD also from that university. His major publications were on thorocoplasty in pulmonary tuberculosis and on chronic meningococcal septicaemia. He saw service with the AAMC from 1940 to 1945, attaining the rank of major 2nd/4th Australian General Hospital in Labuan, Borneo. Soon after the Japanese capitulated he was sent by flying boat in response to an urgent call for a physician specialist in Kuching POW compound where between five to six deaths were occurring daily. Serious vitamin and protein deficiencies, bowel and other infections and multiple worm infestations were prevalent. With blood, serum, plasma, penicillin, nutrient supplements and anthelminthics he reduced the death rate almost to nil within three weeks. His report on this mission is recorded in A Hospital at War by Robert Goodman, and in the War Diary of 2nd/4th Australian General Hospital.

Post war, he was physician to outpatients at Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne from 1946 to 1960, and became president of the Australian Medical Association (Victorian branch) in 1964 and fellow of that association from 1968. In 1937 he married Patricia Francis Wellington. They had three sons.

Author

JH COLEBATCH

References

Med J Aust, 1985, 142, 228; Goodman, R. A Hospital at War, Boolarong Publications, Brisbane, 1983.

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May 30, 2018, 17:34 PM
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