Philip Sydney Jones

[1] Jones was educated at private schools under William Timothy Cape, T. S. Dodds (in Surry Hills) and Henry Cary (in Darling Point), and then went to London in 1853 to study medicine at University College.

Jones was house surgeon and physician and a resident medical officer at University College hospital for a period, and then went to Paris, where he continued his studies in medicine and surgery for some months.

In 1882 he wvas appointed a memuber of the Royal Commission to investigate and report upon the rearrangement of the quarantine station.

Jones went to Europe for about three years in 1883, and spent much time studying developments in medicine and in hospital practice.

In addresses to these bodies he stressed the value of fresh air, pure food, and uninfected milk, and he was quick in realizing the value of X-rays, and the promise of results to be obtained from serum therapy, then in its infancy.

He was responsible for the opening of the Queen Victoria homes at Thirlmere and at Wentworth Falls for patients in the early stages of tuberculosis, and spent much time in the administration of these institutions.

[1] Jones was knighted in 1905 for his work in combating tuberculosis [1] and died in Sydney, survived by three sons and four daughters.