Ida Mann
Dame Ida Caroline Mann, DBE, FRCS (6 February 1893, West Hampstead, London – November 1983) was an English-reared ophthalmologist whose long-term association with Australia began when she moved to Perth, Western Australia, after World War II.
She diagnosed a trachoma epidemic amongst Indigenous people in the Kimberleys and traveled extensively in Western Australia in order to examine and treat Indigenous people with trachoma. Mann became convinced that better housing and sanitation, rather than administration of antibiotics, would improve this health crisis.
She was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 14 June 1980 for services to the welfare of Aboriginal people.
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