Ethel Osborne

Ethel Elizabeth Osborne (née Goodson 30 January 1882 – 3 December 1968) was a British-born Australian doctor who was an expert in the field of hygiene and public health.

On the 10 December 1903 she married William Alexander Osborne and then travelled to Melbourne.

[2] She also founded a Lyceum Club in Melbourne, and was elected vice-president during its first meeting on 21 March 1912.

[3] Osborne served for two years with the British Ministry of Munitions during World War II as a night welfare worker, where she performed research for the Health of Munition Workers' Committee and the Industrial Fatigue Research Board, publishing two reports, "Industrial Hygiene as Applied to Munition Workers" (1921)[4] and was the coauthor of "Study of Accident Causation" (1922).

[5] Osborne also conducted inspections of the Women's Land Army training centres, taking her then three children with her.