Robert T. Paton

Robert Thomson[a] Paton (16 March 1856[2] – 17 February 1929) was a medical doctor who served as Director-General of Public Health for New South Wales from 1913 to 1921.

He completed one year of a medical course at the Edinburgh University before in 1876 leaving for Australia, where he worked as a doctor's assistant in Bathurst and Wallsend[2] and sailed extensively through the South Sea Islands in a yacht which he part-owned.

He returned to Australia and entered into general practice, then joined the public service as a medical officer at Trial Bay prison.

B. Nash MLC were sent to Wollongong hospital by special train immediately after the Mount Kembla coalmine disaster of July 1902 to help treat miners suffering from "afterdamp" (a carbon monoxide mixture) inhalation,[7] the cause of most of the 93 deaths.

[2] Their children included:[10] They had a home on O'Sullivan Road, Rose Bay, in 1928;[13] Wentworth Street, Point Piper in 1929.