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… his father. Soon after, the 17-year-old boy ran away from home with his younger cousin, Richard Jefferies, later a … all the way to Moscow, the two boys were forced to return home when they reached France and discovered they could not … Cox recovered from the surgery, and on the advice of his doctor retired in 1918 to Carter Home, Carterton, a …
Type: Biography
… 1930s, midwives and nurses were often paid to stay in the home after the birth. Some did household chores and cared … context it meant an experienced woman who came into the home and provided support and practical assistance before, … book published by the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly in 1960, a doctor provided this advice: ‘Most babies do very nicely on …
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Part of story: Pregnancy, birth and baby care
… Thursday, performed the abortion, and let her client return home on Saturday. By Sunday the woman was very ill. Her … Hercock, a grocer's assistant, insisted that she see a doctor and she was admitted to Waipukurau Hospital. The … that followed her flower-bedecked hearse from her home, and by the crowd that gathered at Hastings cemetery …
Type: Biography
… H. D. Skinner . In 1933 Batham studied English and home science at the University of Otago. In 1936 she began a … Federation of University Women. After gaining her Cambridge doctorate in 1948, Batham continued as Pantin’s research … biological opportunities made this a permanent return home, apart from subsequent study and conference leave. …
Type: Biography
… in 1920. In June 1921 she became matron of Rannerdale Home in Christchurch, a hospital for disabled veterans who … had retired to the Lady Freyberg Servicewomen's Veterans' Home. She died in Wellington on 11 February 1962. Eva Brooke … a patriotic nurse respected by both her staff and the doctors with whom she worked. 'Sometimes these last four …
Type: Biography
… a large district. Mary Jane found that from a big, gracious home in Ireland with four indoor servants, she now had a … Wairoa where he sold seeds, paints and oils. As the nearest doctor was 80 miles away in Napier, Thomas acted as the … On 7 April 1886 he married Jessie Shears there; he rode home three days later and welcomed his bride with the local …
Type: Biography
… shifted his family to Ramsgate in Kent. There he bought the home of the Gothic Revival architect Augustus Welby Pugin, … to Rome to complete his theological studies, acquiring a doctorate of divinity at the Collegio Romano in 1865, the … for boys. In 1888 the Little Sisters of the Poor opened a home in Ponsonby for the aged poor. As part of a move to …
Type: Biography
… activist and New Zealand Labour Party member, he became the doctor to the construction workers at the nearby Waitaki … leader Jerry Skinner, who often gathered at the McMillan home to hammer out ideas for a national health service. She … but she continued with her busy life from her pleasant home in Highgate, Dunedin, until her death on 13 August …
Type: Biography
… his own carrying business in Waipawa and had built a home. He married Eliza Hope at nearby Kaikora on 4 February … medicine and surgery from books, and, in the absence of doctors, applied his skills to bushmen, miners and family … He later built a house, Riverlea, moving to a larger home, East Neuk, in 1913. Over the next 20 or so years his …
Type: Biography
… develop her talents in watercolour painting. They returned home in 1949 to face an unhappy time with Jim’s health … of 1963 for a nuclear-free southern hemisphere before her doctor ordered her to stop. She also voiced her opposition … of unwanted pregnancies in women’s lives'. She died at the home of her daughter in Dannevirke on 10 February 1969, …
Type: Biography
… Chu-Lin's life in Wellington centred around her home and her husband's Chinese supplies store; the Sing On … Japanese invasion. Chu-Lin was to bear eight more children. Doctors eventually insisted that she deliver in hospital rather than at home, where she would be back at work hours after giving …
Type: Biography
… ethnic diversification. No more babies Elspeth Kjestrup, a doctor in Ngāruawahia, remembers a young Māori mother … the woman grabbed her hand and exclaimed: ‘Dear Doctor, what do you think I bloody well want?!’ 1 Dependency … savings can then be used to fund tertiary education, first homes and retirement – in Australia or New Zealand. The …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Taupori Māori – Māori population change
… shame on themselves and their families. Some stayed in a home run by a charity, which sometimes also ran an adoption … families as live-in, unpaid houseworkers. They returned home after the child had been born and adopted out, and the … oral contraceptive for women) became available in 1961, doctors were advised by their ethical committee in 1965 not …
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Part of story: Adoption
… had a rather exalted opinion of men, especially male doctors, and certainly she welcomed their involvement in … her courage in pursuing a successful libel action against a doctor, and was particularly concerned to protect the rights … retirement was particularly happy. She enjoyed her home and garden in Wellington, continuing to sketch and …
Type: Biography
… were soon well. She also occasionally took the place of a doctor in cases of sickness or accident. The Burgess family, … £11 a year. She died on 10 January 1904 at her daughter's home at Cricklewood, near Fairlie. Both she and her husband …
Type: Biography
… long she became known throughout South Taranaki as 'Ann the Doctor'. The Evans family lived in Hāwera from the late … gifts of food were delivered to her family. She returned home blindfolded and had no idea of the location of the …
Type: Biography
… disability was medicalised, reflecting the growing power of doctors and welfare professionals in the sector. Disability … was provided by specialist service providers, who visited homes and worked in schools. 21st-century reforms In the …
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Part of story: Disability and disability organisations
… Ireland, on 28 August 1842, the son of Francis McMinn, a doctor, and his wife, Mary Day. Little is known of his early … 1912. McMinn died of bronchial illness at his Devonport home on 21 October 1919; Helen McMinn died in 1924. …
Type: Biography
… include: Edward Pōhau Ellison , one of the first Māori doctors linguist and writer Pei Te Hurinui Jones Tahupōtiki … with the hapū or iwi the right of cultural integrity – a home within the same cultural group, Māori with Māori, …
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Part of story: Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption
… a scholar. In Dunedin he had been surrounded by books at home, and at the home of his uncle, Willi Fels , there were collections of … College, London, in 1967. He was awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Oxford, Durham and Otago. …
Type: Biography