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Adelaide Hospital record of admissions ? DBO?
« on: Monday 24 October 22 23:17 BST (UK) »
We are trying to think what DBO might stand for in the column showing under what circumstances patients were admitted to Adelaide Hospital, South Australia, in 1888.

See attached snip -

Others in the column are Drs, police, emergency  etc.   My guess is some doctor on duty in emergency   . . . . .  but I bet one of you really knows the answer, and my guess is not correct.

Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Adelaide Hospital record of admissions ? DBO?
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 25 October 22 02:25 BST (UK) »
Maybe?:

Some of the older admissions have "By Authority of the Destitute Board" .....

Destitute Board Office: https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/sa/biogs/SE00550b.htm

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Re: Adelaide Hospital record of admissions ? DBO?
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 25 October 22 02:30 BST (UK) »
Doctor By Observation?

Destitute Board Order?

Genealogy-Its a family thing

Paternal: Gibbins,McNamara, Jenkins, Schumann,  Inwood, Sheehan, Quinlan, Tierney, Cole

Maternal: Munn, Simpson , Brighton, Clayfield, Westmacott, Corbell, Hatherell, Blacksell/Blackstone, Boothey , Muirhead

Son: Bull, Kneebone, Lehmann, Cronin, Fowler, Yates, Biglands, Rix, Carpenter, Pethick, Carrick, Male, London, Jacka, Tilbrook, Scott, Hampshire, Buckley

Brickwalls-   Schumann, Simpson,Westmacott/Wennicot
Scott, Cronin
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Re: Adelaide Hospital record of admissions ? DBO?
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 25 October 22 02:54 BST (UK) »

FYI only
"RO" might have been a predecessor and I believe that this could have been "Relieving Officer"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_Destitute_Asylum)

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Re: Adelaide Hospital record of admissions ? DBO?
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 25 October 22 08:45 BST (UK) »
Thank you both for your replies.

That link to the Destitute Board Office looks a strong possibility doesn't it.

Doctor by Observation also sounds a credible thought.

Wiggy
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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