Phyllis Cilento
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Phyllis Cilento Lady Cilento |
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Cilento in 1943
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| Born |
Phyllis Dorothy McGlew 13 March 1894 Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died |
26 July 1987 (aged 93) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Known for | Journalism and advocacy of health of mothers and children |
| Relatives | Sir Raphael Cilento (husband) Diane Cilento (daughter) Jason Connery (grandson) |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Medical practitioner |
| Specialism | Health of mothers and children |
Phyllis Dorothy Cilento, Lady Cilento (13 March 1894 – 26 July 1987) was an Australian medical practitioner, prominent medical journalist and pioneering advocate of family planning in Queensland.
Phyllis Dorothy McGlew was born on 13 March 1894 at Rockdale, Sydney, the daughter of merchant and exporter Charles Thomas McGlew and Alice Lane (née Walker). She grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and was educated at Tormore House School. She married Raphael Cilento, a medical administrator, eugenics advocate, and tropical medicine specialist, in Adelaide in 1920. They worked in a number of countries before settling in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1928.
They had six children, including actress Diane Cilento, and remained married until Raphael's death in 1985. She died on 26 July 1987 in Brisbane and was buried in Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery.
Cilento studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1919. She was the only woman in her graduating class. She worked for a short time at the Adelaide Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London and the Marylebone Medical Mission Dispensary.
Following her marriage, the couple moved to the Malay States where she worked as a "lady medical officer" in the British colonial service and supervised a women's ward in a hospital.
In 1922, Cilento studied a course in public health at the University of Sydney.
From 1924 to 1927, she worked in private practice in New Guinea.
Cilento worked in the Hospital for Sick Children in Brisbane from 1931 to 1938, after which she moved into general practice working from a surgery attached to her home in Annerley with a special interest in the health of mothers and children, including obstetrics. In 1967, she moved to Toowong, where she continued her practice until the early 1980s.
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