Elizabeth Kenny Acheivements

By stmjw
  • Elizabeth Returned To Nobby

    She returned to nobby and began working as an unofficial bush nurse. soon, using the money she earned by brokering potatos, she opened a cottage hospital in Clifton, a village a few miles from Nobby , ehere she treated her first cases of polio.
  • Elizabeth became a sister

    She earned title of Sister, which in the Austrailian Army Nurse Corps is the equivalent of a first Lieutenant. She used that title for the rest of her life.
  • She traveled thoughout Australia

    Between this year and 1940, she traveled extensively throughout Australia helping to set up clinics. She also made two trips to England where she set up a treatment clinic in St. Mary's hospital near Carshlton where there is a rehabilitation.
  • She published a book

    She published a basic book about her work and began anouther, The Treatment of Infantile Paralysis in The Acute Sage, which was later published in America.