History | Meet the remarkable Newcastle woman known as "Ma" Dalby

By Mike Scanlon
May 8 2020 - 5:00pm
SELFLESS: Newcastle's Mary Ann Dalby (at back) with family members. Picture: Courtesy of Paul Roe
SELFLESS: Newcastle's Mary Ann Dalby (at back) with family members. Picture: Courtesy of Paul Roe

DEEP within the archives of Newcastle Museum in Honeysuckle is a special marble memorial plaque. It commemorates a now almost forgotten Newcastle woman who lived to help others and became a heroine in the Hunter's infamous Spanish flu pandemic of 1919. (Well before the present COVID-19 emergency, this other disease took millions, not thousands, of lives world-wide.)

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