Dr Hugh M-P

Portrait of Officers of 128th Australian General Hospital, Port Moresby, Papua, in 1944. Captain Hugh Murray-Prior is in the middle row, 4th from right.

An undated photo of Hugh M-P as a dashing young man.¹⁾

The next photo is from 1952, when Hugh was Medical Superintendent at Crown Street Women's Hospital (Surry Hills, Sydney). He is in the middle of the front row, with Pathologist J. Murray Moyes third from the left and resident medical officers. ²⁾. While at Crown Street, Hugh (with Drs Bob Macbeth and Peter Crowe) collaborated with Dr Reg Hamlin (his predecessor as Medical Superintendent) to substantially reduce neonatal mortality after prolapse of the umbilical cord. For more see Judith Godden's History of Crown Street, ch.10
A later photo of Hugh in his office: