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… relief work and setting up residential camps for those made homeless. He served as an intern at Wellington Hospital in … Red Cross Society and St John Ambulance Association to send doctors to war-torn China. Maaka arrived in Hong Kong in … location. His father-in-law, Albert Stewart , mortgaged his home and lands so that Maaka could buy a house. He set up …
Type: Biography
… (FART), they kept a small tanker of water at the Tauwhare home kill. Monthly meetings were generally drinking … confronted him at his West Coast property. Soldiers, the home guard and volunteers were called out as reinforcements … died or was incapacitated. They also received subsidised doctors’ visits, medicines and hospital care. There were …
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Part of story: Rural services
… and spiritual importance to death and mourn the dead. Home and hospital care In the late 19th and early 20th centuries death usually occurred at home, with family members caring for the dying. During the … 20th century death was more likely to occur in hospital as doctors and nurses became involved in caring for dying …
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Part of story: Death and dying
… on 4 January 1865. Later she arrived unannounced at the home of her sister, Margaret Grant, at Gladstone, Wairarapa. … this ambition as the central Wairarapa area had neither a doctor nor a hospital. She skilfully tended the sick, both … so commanding was her presence. She sought permanent foster homes for the children, believing that integration into a …
Type: Biography
… In 1936 almost all Māori women (except those working in the home) worked in primary production. This dropped to 14% by … 1895. He was followed by Thomas Ellison, also a lawyer, and doctors Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa), Māui Pōmare and Edward … single Māori lawyer, two law clerks (male and female), four doctors and two dentists. There were six managers (three men …
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Part of story: Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce
… she met William Marshall Macdonald, a prominent Dunedin doctor. Sadie and Marshall were married on 26 February 1913 … Marshall to France in 1915, leaving her small son at home. Excluded from the British army nursing service because … she received from potential employers in beautifully kept homes. It was not a tactic likely to endear her to matrons …
Type: Biography
… from 1925 to 1930. By 1931 he had apparently gained a doctorate in psychology. He introduced the society to … of alternative spirituality and pleasant climate, his home and the international headquarters of the movement. He … in 1989. Other educational institutions, such as the Hohepa homes, also benefited. Sutcliffe was sometimes authoritarian …
Type: Biography
… Theodora Hall) , would become a well-known East Coast doctor. Helen was educated at Wellington Girls’ College, … Stanley Longton Deem, a civil engineer, and moved to his home town of Whanganui. Two years later she gave birth to … to the local Plunket Society hospital, the Stewart Kāritane Home, and in 1933 she became a member of the Plunket …
Type: Biography
… family members including his elder brother, Robb returned home in 1928. In Britain he had been working on his thesis … New Zealand and graduated in 1929. At this time New Zealand doctors who were intent on becoming specialists were … countries, with periodic returns to the British ‘Homeland’ to provide refreshment and inspiration. One …
Type: Biography
… to throw them out of bed. Many hastily escaped from their homes, amidst falling chimneys and roof tiles. At … in isolated areas. Four people, including a constable and a doctor carrying a pack of medical supplies, walked to Īnangahua Junction. There the doctor treated most patients outdoors because aftershocks …
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Part of story: Historic earthquakes
… a successful practice at a time when there were few woman doctors. Her absolute belief in the sanctity of life led her … facilities, so she established a kindergarten in her home. After a year at Karori School both girls were enrolled … private girls’ school within walking distance of the family home. Diana thrived at Marsden. Naturally clever and hungry …
Type: Biography
… Hair salons Women did their hair at home in the 19th century. Men dominated the hairdressing … in conjunction with baths, at a time when not every home had the convenience of running water. When women chose … their variants) were increasingly common, and by 2011 some doctors reported that pubic hair removal was the norm for …
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Part of story: Personal grooming
… traded across the Tasman and up to the China seas, coming home at intervals with wines, brassware, china and other … with a rough knowledge of surgery, and was unofficial 'doctor' to the small but cosmopolitan Stewart Island … walked, sometimes many miles, treated the patient, returned home to sleep and went back to the patient next day. She did …
Type: Biography
… the troopship Ayrshire . Hilda Northcroft registered as a doctor in Auckland on 27 May 1919. She specialised in … to use 'twilight sleep' for painless childbirth. As a doctor she was popular among the women of Auckland, but … of the women of New Zealand. She welcomed people into her home, where she hosted meetings and gatherings. Her leisure …
Type: Biography
… control and mothering were shifting, including amongst doctors. It became slightly easier to get an abortion. The … their babies. Occasionally protesters would follow a woman home and tell her family that she had had an abortion. … and argued that abortion was a decision for a woman and her doctor. The more radical Women’s National Abortion Action …
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Part of story: Abortion
… Nursing Division of St John, which nursed in their own homes people who could afford no other medical care. From … and sought the abolition of the system whereby only doctors selected by a committee of the profession were on … afford no other maternity care. Gill vigorously advocated a home that would provide good care for all working-class …
Type: Biography
… when the patients were washed and the ward prepared for the doctors' visits at 9. Other duties included scrubbing and … From 1909 to 1915 she was in charge of the nurses' home, where all the probationers lived during their three … in charge was responsible for enforcing the rules of the home and for fostering the value of discipline by ensuring …
Type: Biography
… heads of households, but it was generally wives who ran the homes and did most of the work. Gardens While her husband … front garden. Her main role, though, was inside the family home. Failed to rise The Edmonds cookbook has been the New … was formed in Wellington in the 1960s. In 1969 New Zealand doctors prescribed 40 million doses of valium. Most of the …
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Part of story: Men and women in the city
… cause) she treated herself. Others she sent to the Pākehā doctor. Puna often nursed her patients in her own home. Those who could not afford to pay her were not … also possibly a transliteration of Simmons, the name of the doctor who lived at Pātea. W. T. Simmons and Puna worked …
Type: Biography
… six months in 1925 she was acting matron of the Mothercraft Home, Wellington. She then resumed district Plunket nursing. … advice of Truby King , the society’s founder. On her return home Chapman was appointed matron of Truby King Karitane … medical officers at the Auckland Plunket clinic. However, doctors’ attendance was irregular and Chapman regretted that …
Type: Biography