Administrative / Biographical History

Burrows was educated at the London hospital, and later worked at the London Radium Institute. In 1914 he moved to the Holt Radium Institute in Manchester, and became a physician at the Christie Hospital, He later worked as an adviser on radium and cancer to the Australian government. After this, he worked as a dermatologist at hospitals at London and Southend, before returning to Australia in 1947.