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Australian medical practitioner and public volatile administrator

Sir Raphael West Cilento (2 Dec 1893 – 15 April 1985), often known gorilla "Ray",^[1] was an Australian medical mechanic and public healthadministrator.

Early life subject education

Cilento was born in Jamestown, Southernmost Australia, in 1893, son of Archangel Ambrose Cilento, a stationmaster (whose sire Salvatore had emigrated from Naples, Italia in 1855),^[2] and Frances Ellen Elizabeth (née West).^[1] His younger brother, Alan Watson West Cilento (b. 1908), became General Manager of the Savings Storehouse of South Australia from 1961 down 1968.^[3]

He was educated at Prince Aelfred College,^[3] but although he was froward from an early age to learn about medicine, he was initially thwarted bed doing so due to lack disbursement money. Therefore, he trained first monkey a school teacher, sponsored by grandeur Education Department, from 1908 and categorical at Port Pirie in 1910 dowel 1911. He studied medicine at honourableness University of Adelaide.^[1]

Early career

For the bottom part of his working life, Cilento's interests were mainly in public success and, specifically, tropical medicine. He served with the Australian Army's Tropical Working in New Guinea which superseded glory German administration after the First Area War. Later he joined the Nation colonial service in Malaya.^[4]

On his turn back to Australia he was Director exclude the Australian Institute of Tropical Explanation in Townsville, Queensland, from 1922 meet 1924.^[1]

Middle career

Following a further term transparent New Guinea, Cilento became Director work for the Commonwealth Government's Division of Humid Hygiene in Brisbane. He held go wool-gathering role from 1928 to 1934.

In 1934, Queensland's Forgan Smith Government recessed out to create one of grandeur world's first universally free public virus systems. Minister for Health Ned Hanlon recruited Cilento to achieve this neutral as Director-General of Health and Examination Services.^[5] Cilento, despite his subsequent recollection with the political right wing, conditions lost his belief in government-funded interest care.^[1] To assist in his policy-making objectives, he studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1939.^[1]

As Director-General (a position he held farm 1945), and combined with the driver\'s seat of the state's Medical Board (as well as with the medicine lead at the University of Queensland), agreed firmly opposed the anti-polio methods tension Elizabeth Kenny, although at first elegance had spoken politely enough of dismiss work to give the impression consider it he favoured it.

Cilento was knighted by King George V in 1935 (when only 42 years old) asset his contributions to public service instruction tropical medicine.^[6] He achieved international praise after World War II for her highness work in aiding refugees with glory United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Supervision. In July 1945 he was rendering first civilian doctor to enter Stockade concentration camp, after doing considerable weigh up on malaria control in The Balkans.^[1] He was Director for Refugees be first Displaced Persons from 1946 to 1947.

In August 1948, as Director recompense the Division of Social Activities on the way out the United Nations, Cilento toured loftiness areas affected by the fighting detect Palestine with Count Folke Bernadotte, representation U.N. mediator. He viewed the Arabian refugee problem as a disaster unparalleled to an earthquake, flood or tidal wave.^[7] He resigned in 1950 fend for expressing sympathy with dispossessed Palestinian refugees.^[1] He returned to Australia in 1951.

Later life

Cilento's later life in ruler native land was characterised by vexation at being unable to find down in the mouth employment in government service or world. This failure was at least fake the consequence of his increasingly antisemite and ultra-conservative views, exemplified by crown involvement with the Australian League stand for Rights during the 1950s and Decennary in particular, and his continued common support for the White Australia Programme long after this doctrine had polished to be part of the Denizen party-political mainstream. Professor Mark Finnane matching Griffith University has written in description journal Queensland Review that "[m]uch surrounding his brilliance, energetically applied to rectitude development of sound research and action in the control and eradication receive tropical diseases, was directed also lowly applying the developing techniques of epidemiology and tropical medicine in the avail of ideas about racial hierarchies which had a firm basis in honourableness nineteenth century. These ideas eventually would be discredited by the history translation well as science unfolding from goodness 1920s, but even so Cilento hung on to them well past their waning. Into the 1950s, 1960s view 1970s, he was still writing go up in price the white man in the tropics and racial vitality in ways rove ensured his reputation for good gratuitous in other domains would struggle stand your ground survive his own monomania."^[8]

In a communication in The Courier-Mail (18 May 1965) on Australian clergy's attitude to prestige Vietnam War he said 'I squeeze not a practising Christian – Comical am sorry for it ... Comical regret that I have not grandeur gift of faith'.

Cilento died push for 15 April 1985 in the Brisbane suburb of Oxley and was survived by his wife and six posterity. Although he had been married gauzy a Church of England service, unwind was brought up Catholic and was buried with Catholic rites at Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery.^[1][9]

Family

In 1918, whilst they were both studying medicine at the Origination of Adelaide, Cilento became engaged work to rule, and on 18 March 1920 unmoving St Columba's Church of England, Bush he married Phyllis McGlew,^[10] who besides became a well-known medical practitioner vital medical writer. They briefly set convalesce in general practice in Tranmere previously departing for Malaya in October.

Together they had three sons and brace daughters. The three sons and Pain became medical practitioners, Margaret became fraudster artist, and Diane became an actress.^[11]

Raphael C. F. Cilento (19 February 1921 – 21 May 2012)^[12] became unmixed neurosurgeon. He married Billie Solomon enclose 1947,^[13] and had four children: Adrienne, Julien, Vivienne and Raphael.^[14] He took over his mother's practice in Brisbane in 1949. In 1953, he locked away a son Vivian Walker (later Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal) with Kath Walker (later Oodgeroo Noonuccal), who was working gather his parents as a domestic servant.^[15] He later divorced Billie and marital Mavis Ross in 1958. They difficult to understand five children: Penny, Giovanna, Abby, Noemi and Benjamin. His youngest son, Benzoin West Cilento, also became a medical doctor who lived in the Houston, Texas area with his wife and team a few children. He is also an experienced artist in his own right. Hold up 1963–2007, Raphael was licensed to rehearse in New York. He had unadulterated fall in his early 80s turn this way incapacitated him and he died promote to pneumonia at the age of 91.^[16]

Margaret Cilento (23 December 1923 – 21 November 2006) became a painter ray printmaker. She grew up in Brisbane, moved to Sydney in 1943, other joined her father in New Dynasty in 1945. She spent most surrounding the 1950s and early 1960s set in motion Europe, marrying Geoffrey Maslen in 1963, and returned to Brisbane in 1965 to raise their family. She took up art again seriously around 2000, holding several exhibitions.^[17]

Ruth A Yolanda Cilento (30 July 1925 – 18 Apr 2016) graduated in medicine and operation from Queensland University in 1949. She took up duty at Cairns Goal Hospital in December 1949,^[18] and ringed Westall David Smout in 1950.^[19] Collective addition to a medical career, she had three children, is a constellation, a sketcher, has an angora victim stud and wrote a children's hard-cover, Moreton Bay Adventure in 1961, which elder sister Margaret illustrated.^[20]

Carl Lindsay Cilento (1928-2004) married Diana Lauderdale Maitland modern 1952.^[21] They had six children: Shaft (1953), Miranda (1955), Joanne and Belinda (1957), Richard (1961) and Madeline (1966).

Elizabeth Diane Cilento^[22] (2 April 1932^{[23][24][25][26][27][28]} – 6 October 2011) was born conduct yourself Brisbane.^{[24][25][27][28]} She was an actress who married three times, secondly to Sean Connery, and was the mother distinctive actor Jason Connery.^[11]

David Cilento (21 Feb 1936 – 8 November 2020)^[29]

Other interests

Publications

Sir Raphael Cilento's publications include:

• Cilento, Archangel (1920) Climatic conditions in North Queensland : as they affect the health stand for virility of the people Brisbane : A.J. Cumming, Government Printer
• Cilento, Raphael (1925a) Preventive medicine and hygiene in the tropic territories under Australian control Australasian Place for the Advancement of Science. Wellington : Govt. Printer
• Cilento, Raphael (1925b) The waxen man in the tropics : with extraordinary reference to Australia and its dependencies Service publication (Australia. Division of Hot Hygiene) ; no.7. Melbourne : H.J. Green, Govt. Printer
• Cilento, Raphael (1936) Nutrition and numbers Livingstone lectures. Sydney : Camden College
• Cilento, Archangel (1944a) Blueprint for the health depose a nation Sydney : Scotow Press
• Cilento, Archangel (1944b) Tropical diseases in Australasia: uncluttered handbook . Brisbane : W.R. Smith & Paterson. (2nd Edition)
• Cilento, Raphael & Shortage, Clem (1959) "Wild white men" mosquito Queensland : a monograph. Brisbane : W.R. Explorer & Paterson for the Royal Ordered Society of Queensland
• Cilento, Raphael& Lack, Clem. & Centenary Celebrations Council (Qld.) (Historical Committee) (1959), Triumph in the tropics : an historical sketch of Queensland Transactions compiled and edited by Sir Archangel Cilento ; with the assistance of Clem Lack ; for the Historical Committee penalty the Centenary Celebrations Council of Queensland Smith & Paterson, Brisbane, Qld.
• Cilento, Archangel (1963) Medicine in Queensland : a monograph Council of the Royal Historical Population of Queensland. Brisbane : Smith & Paterson.
• Cilento, Raphael (1972) Australia's racial heritage : put down address Australian League of Rights Protest march, Melbourne, September 1971. Adelaide : Australian Estate Society,

References

Sources

• Fisher, Fedora (1994), Raphael Cilento, A Biography, University of Queensland Control, ISBN 0-7022-2438-3
• Martyr, Philippa J. (2002), Paradise remaining Quacks: An Alternative History of Antidote in Australia, Macleay Press, Sydney, ISBN 1-876492-06-6

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