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… in the 1920s, remembered: ‘Top ranking was given to doctors, lawyers, architects, at least one dentist, bank … owned houses in Fendalton, while factory workers rented homes in Sydenham. State-house areas were regarded as working class. Whether someone rented or owned their home remained an important marker of status, but it was as …
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Part of story: Class
… a complex system of pulleys. This device gained fame as the doctor's 'shooting gallery'. Although he served as … their years of working together at the Waverley nursing home, he and the midwife Lizzie Edwards (who trained at St … forward field station at the Somme and had to be invalided home to New Zealand. His appeals to be sent back to the war …
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… of her birth and later became a chemist and eventually a doctor of dentistry. His daughter's shared interest in teeth … she was to gain an almost legendary reputation as school doctor. Elizabeth Gunn attended Timaru and Otago Girls' high … influential battler for child health died at Ranui rest home in Wellington. Instructions left on her death reflected …
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… a happy childhood in the garden, bush and beach beside her home until her parents, believing that schools in Sydney … before returning to Sydney in 1901. Prejudice against women doctors hampered her attempt to establish herself in a … of Federated Farmers of New Zealand for use as a holiday home and bequeathed her second house to the same …
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… for 20 years, during which time it had been without a doctor or hospital. It had, however, been ably served by a … and on occasion dangerously swollen rivers. The only doctor in Masterton for many years, Hosking worked long … and carried out medical research in a back room at home. Outside of his work he frequently exhibited at …
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… she accepted her father's dictum that she should train as a doctor. At the end of 1890 they tackled together the … the Caversham Industrial School (later the Girls' Receiving-home) from 1907 to 1930 and anaesthetist at the Dental … offered practical support to 'fallen women' within her own home. On family issues, in keeping with her Victorian …
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… wood and plaster. In Napier, the recently built Nurses’ Home collapsed, killing clerical staff and off-duty nurses … eight lives. Fifteen died at the Park Island Old Men’s Home near Taradale, but a 91-year-old man was pulled alive … in wrecked buildings. Some could not be rescued in time; a doctor administered a lethal overdose of morphine to an …
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Part of story: Historic earthquakes
… to minimise both trauma and scarring. Grant was also the doctor for King’s Preparatory School, near his home in Remuera, where he settled after his marriage to … and the Ellerslie Racecourse, Remuera was to remain his home for the rest of his life, and he became well known as a …
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… in an 1889 report. 1 In addition to pushing for more women doctors and women in hospital management, the WCTU believed … 20th century. In its place were strong pushes to improve home hygiene (to cut the rate of disease), reduce maternal … and abortion were both focused on by government and doctors; but neither were willing to make women’s very …
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Part of story: Women’s health
… Association) was formed in 1936, Chapman was one of several doctors who offered advice. She also sat on the 1938 inquiry … of giving aid to the millions of war sufferers: the homeless, the starving, and the desperately ill. That … and later the registrar. At first medical supervisor for a home for the elderly at Bexhill-on-Sea, she later retired …
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… was involved in Presbyterian charity groups and organised a home for single pregnant women in Invercargill. Helen Baird … Invercargill, and is thought to have been the first woman doctor in Southland. On 10 January 1908 at Invercargill she married a fellow doctor, James Alexander Cowie. They were students together …
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… the value not only of clean towns, waterways and homes, but also of personal cleanliness. Women were charged … Bathing In the 19th and early 20th centuries, doctors recommended daily cold baths and warm or hot baths … in Auckland’s Freemans Bay, then a poor suburb. Half the homes had no bath and 90% no hand-washing basin. This …
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Part of story: Washing, cleaning and personal hygiene
… practice at Rangiora. He soon found the life of a country doctor far more arduous than he had expected. One of his … at night with the help of a shepherd, but finding his way home alone the next day he had to swim his horse across the … could be consulted at J. C. Brook's chemist shop. His first home was Harrington Cottage in Montreal Street, but for most …
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… providers. Medical practitioners The first Māori medical doctor was Māui Pōmare, who graduated from the American … there in 1897. Multi-tasking The first Māori woman doctor was Rina Ropiha, who graduated in 1948. She … in psychiatry and established a private clinic at her home. During her medical training she got married and had …
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Part of story: Health practitioners
… line, and cleared a 40-acre section on which he built a home for his family. Alice, as she was known, attended … including deliveries, appendectomies and amputations in the home. In 1919 the Masterton Hospital Board appointed Alice … The cases, although always under the supervision of the doctor, covered a wide variety of sickness, from measles to …
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… and support of middle-class women, some of them wives of doctors who were sceptical of King's ideas. These … boarded out in licensed houses. After King had used his home and then his seaside cottage at Karitāne to board … institution for infant care in New Zealand, the Karitāne Home for Babies, at Andersons Bay in December 1907. Although …
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… missionary around August 1901, reputedly the first woman doctor to be sent overseas by the Adventist church. On 13 … Christchurch, she married Peter Martin Keller, an Adventist doctor, whom she had met as a student in Chicago. The couple … where they established a medical practice at their home on Ponsonby Road. Around 1914 they shifted their …
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… always sent for Alice at times of illness, and local doctors asked her to care for the families of their … thought it a 'terrible thing' for a daughter to leave home except for marriage. Holford thus did not begin her … she enjoyed her wartime matronship of Hanmer Convalescent Home for Soldiers in 1916. She sought adequate salaries for …
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… work. For example when clothing was no longer made in the home, it was usually bought from a local manufacturer. In … range from very highly skilled occupations such as doctors, through to relatively low-skilled jobs such as … unpaid work (such as caring for elderly relatives at home) has become paid work (such as nursing at a rest home). …
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Part of story: Workforce composition
… time in Munich. He claimed to have gained the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Martin Luther University of … and Fischer had been able to revive her after several other doctors had failed. The attendant publicity filled his … live down the scandal'. Now receiving his patients at his home, Sans Souci, which was heavily mortgaged against his …
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