Clifton (including Nobby)
Small service centre in the Darling Downs.
Located 185 km south-west of Brisbane, 57 km south of
Toowoomba and 437 m above sea-level, Clifton is a tiny town
with a population of less than 700. Like so many of the
population centres of the Darling Downs it came into
existence in the early 1840s when the government finally
relented and allowed settlement to occur relatively close to
the penal colony at Moreton Bay.
In 1868 the area was opened up for closer settlement and
in 1869 the railway provided good access to the sea. Along
with the rest of the Darling Downs the town prospered
between 1890 and1920 with the success of the local dairy
industry. The 1891 census recorded a population of 278 which
had grown to 1227 by the census of 1911. Today Clifton
serves the rich and prosperous agricultural area within
which it lies.
Things to see:
Nobby
Perhaps the major attraction in the Clifton area is the
grave of Sister Kenny in the cemetery at the nearby hamlet
of Nobby.
Elizabeth Kenny became a nurse in 1911. Her first nursing
position was in outback Queensland where she came into
contact with a number of children suffering from
poliomyelitis. The conventional medical wisdom of the time
said that polio victims should be placed in splints. Kenny
argued against this. She concluded that the deformities
caused by polio could only be cured by exercise.
In 1933, when an outbreak of polio occurred in
Queensland, Kenny set up a clinic in Townsville. The results
achieved by the clinic were sufficiently impressive to
attract government funding in 1934 and by 1935 similar
clinics had been established in New South Wales and
Victoria.
The medical profession waged a campaign against Sister
Kenny's unorthodox treatment and in 1938 a Royal Committee
backed the medical profession. Kenny left Australia and
continued her work in the United States. She subsequently
returned to Australia and died in Toowoomba on 30 November
1952.
Nobby is also an interesting footnote in Australia's
literary history. It was here that the famous short story
writer 'Steele Rudd', the author of On Our Selection and the
creator of the famous Dad and Dave characters, lived from
1909-1917. In a story he wrote in 1924 called The Handicap
he recounted running a dead heat in the Clifton races of
1883.
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