Between 1861 and 1900, 1,352 overseas-trained doctors were registered to practise in Victoria, Australia. This paper discusses the causes of death in seventy-five who survived no more than three years after receiving their medical licence in the colony. The largest group died from tuberculosis, at an average age of thirty-one years. Probably all had left Europe with the infection, hoping that a cure would result from their ‘therapeutic migration’. Whether that was likely to be a vain hope is discussed. The next largest group died by their own hand, and this paper argues that loneliness, alcoholism, and the stresses of adapting to an unfamiliar country may all have played a part.
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