Report on July 2013 meeting : Dr Cox's association with Helensburgh

Jenny Donohoe

Abstract

Jenny Donohoe is the research officer of the Helensburgh and District Historical Society, and also the curator of the Old Mine Surgery museum. The subject of Jenny's talk at the Juily meeting was the life and work of Dr Frederick Henry Cox who was the sole medical practitioner in Helensburgh for some thirty-two years. He was hired in 1910 by the miners of the Metropolitan Coal Mine to look after workers at the mine.