Clubbe, Charles Percy Barlee (1854 - 1932)

For health reasons Charles Clubbe decided to migrate to Australia in 1883. He immediately set up a private practice in Randwick, New South Wales and within a year was working as an honorary surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Glebe Point. By 1889 Clubbe was appointed an honorary assistant surgeon to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and had developed a reputation as an expert in the surgical treatment of children. His text book The diagnosis & treatment of intussusception (1907) gained world-wide praise and went into its second edition in 1921. He also wrote a series of papers for the Australiasian Medical Gazette (1889-1891) on the surgical treatment of club-feet and of bow-legs which lead to the development of orthopaedic surgery in Australia.

Advanced surgical techniques were not the only contributions Charles Clubbe made to paediatric medicine. He also established a diptheria treatment centre at the Glebe hospital where he treated patients with a new diptheria antitoxin and carried out emergency traceotomies. When not dealing with pateints, Clubbe gave lectures in clinical surgery at the University of Sydney (1895-1907); managed the board of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children; served on the Medical Board of New South Wales; was president of the New South Wales Bush Nursing Association, the District Nursing Association, the Infantile Paralysis Committee of New South Wales, and the Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies; and was chairman of the Baby Clinics, Pre-maternity and Home Nursing Board.

Chronology

1876 -	Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London
1877 -	Licentiate of the Royal Coleege of Physicians, London
1879	Civil Surgeon with the Army Medical Department of Natal
1880	Chief Resident Medical Officer at the (Royal) Manchester Children's Hospital, UK
1883	Migrated to Australia (Sydney) and set up a general practice in Randwick
c. 1884 -	Honorary Surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children in Glebe Point
c. 1889 -	Honorary Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
1895 - 1907	Lecturer in Medicine at the University of Sydney
1897 - 1898	President of the British Medical Association, New South Wales branch
1900	Private practice established in Macquarie St, Sydney
1904 - 1932	Head of the Board of Management at the Royal Alexandra Hospital
1907	Visiting Surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA
1907	The Diagnosis & Treatment of Intussusception published
1914	Chairman of the Baby Clinics, Pre-Maternity and Home Nursing Board
1915 - 1916	Member of the Medical Board of New South Wales
1924	Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
1927	Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
1928	Foundation Fellow of the College of Surgeons of Australasia (now the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons)