Dr Stanley C. Wigley graduated MB BS, University of Melbourne, with honours and the exhibition in Medicine in 1944. After a year at the Royal Melbourne Hospital he joined the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps and served a period at Bonegilla, where he became interested in tuberculosis. In 1947-48 he was Resident Medical Officer in the Chest Wing of the Repatriation General Hospital in Melbourne. As a Wunderly Scholar in 1948 he worked as a house physician at the Brompton Hospital, London, and undertook voluntary research work on respiratory physiology at Hammmersmith. In 1950 Dr Wigley returned to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and conducted chest clinics in Victoria.
In 1956 Dr Wigley spent three months in New Guinea where he carried out a Tuberculosis survey along the Sepik River. In 1957 he was appointed Specialist Medical Officer (Tuberculosis) in the TPNG Department of Public Health, in charge of the Tuberculosis Control Unit based in Port Moresby, with responsibility for the management of the tuberculosis problem in PNG. Under Dr Wigley’s direction an effective tuberculosis control program was undertaken by mobile regional units using innovative large scale out-patient treatment programs which achieved significant reductions in infection rates in the general community. Dr Wigley’s achievements are reflected in his publications which include papers on tuberculosis, leprosy, lung cancer and pneumonia. Dr Wigley retired in 1974.

Official and unofficial correspondence, published and unpublished articles, reports and conference papers by Wigley and others, survey and research records on tuberculosis control and treatment in PNG, lecture notes on public health in PNG, annual reports and other records of the TB Control Unit in PNG, records of District Medical Officers’ Conferences, annual reports of the Department of Public Health, papers relating to the Medical Society of Papua New Guinea, papers given to meetings of the Papua and New Guinea Scientific Society, reports on the development of conservation areas and parks in PNG. 57 files. See Finding aids for details.