Helby, Ernest Hasler
- First name(s)
- Ernest Hasler
- Surname
- Helby
- Position(s) held at King's College London
- Demonstrator of Bacteriology (1893-) Ref: *1
- Lecturer, comparative Pathology and Bacteriology (c.1895)
Education & professional details
- Qualifications
- RCS (1893)
- LRCP. Lond (1893) Ref: *2
- DPH. Eng. Conj (Middlesex) (1895) Ref: *3
- Position(s) held (non King's College London)
- Deputy Medical Officer, H.M. Prison Wormwood Scrubs (c.1899) Ref: *2 *3
- Resident Medical Officer, Borough Hospital Croydon (c. 1905) Ref: *3
- Medical Officer, Winson Green Prison (c. 1909) Ref: *4
- Professional activities
Member BMA Ref: *3
Personal details
- Date of birth
- 1870
- Date of death
- 1921
Notes
Helby was one of the first doctors to force feed imprisoned suffragettes in 1909. Ref: *4
References
- Secretary’s In-Correspondence, KA/IC/H107, King’s College London Archives
- The Medical Register for 1899, 753
- Medical Directory 1905, 182
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William Murphy, "The health of suffragette prisoners: force-feeding and vomiting", Exploring the history of prisoner health. https://histprisonhealth.com/2016/12/08/the-health-of-suffragette-prisoners-force-feeding-and-vomiting/. [Accessed 15 August 2017].