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… after a year without schooling and a second year spent at home with a governess. Mary then attended Mrs Bowen's school … then became ill and Mary terminated her education to return home and care for her and her younger sisters. After a year … and hospital-based social workers. She fought doctors to retain midwifery training, helped expand the …
Type: Biography
… was highly regarded, both by grateful patients and by other doctors who were pleased to call on his surgical expertise. … in 1872, and used as a surgery as well as the family home, is celebrated as the oldest surviving house in the city. It serves as a local reminder of the tall London doctor with a spade-beard who for 20 years was a prominent …
Type: Biography
… same time she was establishing herself as the first woman doctor in private practice in Wellington. Tall and striking … For the many girls of 14 to 16 living and working away from home for the first time, she recommended hostel … continuing education classes – including practical homemaking – and regular exercise on tennis and fives courts …
Type: Biography
… criticised, many see their car as an extension of house and home. Historically, the car was the ideal transport solution … the initial market was limited to professionals, especially doctors, and wealthy sheep farmers. The first car in central …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Cars and the motor industry
… by Mother Mary Aubert as consulting physician to Our Lady's Home of Compassion and, in 1912, became visiting physician … list in March 1947. Bowerbank published an autobiography, A doctor's story , in 1958. His interests, outside medicine …
Type: Biography
… Sally Tan Oon Neo in Kuala Lumpur. The couple’s final home was Sydney, where James had trouble finding work, … His reputation fell victim to an unscrupulous attempt to doctor the historical record for monetary gain. …
Type: Biography
… October 1924 when his father became ill and he was called home to support his parents. The three soon shifted to … Guinea. He was made an OBE in 1980 and received an honorary doctorate of theology in 1992 at the 70th anniversary …
Type: Biography
… group until the 1930s) were isolated in their employers’ homes, worked long hours, and in many cases had to ask … Association was founded in 1909 with assistance from doctors and the Department of Health. The association …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Women’s labour organisations
… at St Thomas's and resident medical officer to St Thomas's Home, and gained his FRCS. On 15 April 1903 Acland married … on the board from 1926 to 1947. Acland was one of the first doctors in New Zealand to confine his private practice … in Browns Road, St Albans, and this became the family home for the rest of his life. He was a keen gardener and …
Type: Biography
… week were red-letter days for New Zealand soldiers, both at home and overseas, Friday was payday, but Thursday was … But its patriotic role in two world wars allayed doubts. Doctors recommended smoking as an aid for nerves, and it was … first signs of increasing lung cancer rates were appearing. Home production Local tobacco growers and cigarette …
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Part of story: Smoking
… themselves or had no one to care for them. The earliest home for lunatics in New Zealand was a wooden building … too, form the most extravagant anticipations of their new home and are proportionally depressed by the result of … Ordinance 1846 stated that after certification by two doctors called upon by two justices of the peace, a …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Mental health services
… New Zealand diet, which included plenty of red meat, home baking and full-fat dairy products, was shown to lead … went to the chubbiest child on display. By the early 1900s doctors and nurses associated with the Plunket Society were … and snack foods containing high levels of fat and sugar. In homes where meals such as breakfast and lunch were not …
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Part of story: Body shape and dieting
… were thwarted by a lack of enthusiastic support from home, and only a small group of French and German people – … came from three areas in the south of England – the Home Counties of Kent and Sussex, the far south-west of … retired military officers, and a few professionals such as doctors aspiring to a higher social status. Many were single …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: History of immigration
… Tahu. Uncles from both sides of the family were lawyers, doctors and ministers. With this tradition of responsibility … the Second World War Reki Te Tau was an officer in the Home Guard and, after learning Morse code with him, Kuini … family did not break their ties with Masterton, commuting home by train every Friday evening. As part of her Māori …
Type: Biography
… to succeed at school despite the disadvantages of her home situation. Marie’s secondary schooling at Wellington … as she experienced specialised training unavailable at home. Marriage, motherhood, early career Shortly after … and despite the pressures of work and home she embarked on doctoral studies the following year. Her thesis, ‘Emergent …
Type: Biography
… 1953–54 royal tour, and assisted Doris Gordon , a Stratford doctor, to write two autobiographies. These books led to a … Abroad and national secretary of Servas (the international home hospitality organisation), and was inaugural secretary …
Type: Biography
… Rome, Thomas Croke won academic distinctions including a doctorate of divinity with honours. After ordination in May … an outspoken supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish home rule, and of Gaelic games and the Irish language. He …
Type: Biography
… at Motutī. Another Catholic settlement, Panguru, was the home of one of Northland’s most famous 20th-century elders, … from 1850. George McCall Smith, an archetypal backblocks doctor, developed Hokianga’s unique health service, centred …
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Part of story: Northland places
… Edinburgh Asylum and was well known as a humane psychiatric doctor. Frederick studied medicine in Edinburgh and … his employment. A month later, on 25 June, he died at his home in Karori, Wellington, aged 39. The causes of death …
Type: Biography
… knowledge to earn a living as a teacher when he left home at the age of 14 or 15. Keen to pursue education at a … theology during 1875. In 1872 he had been awarded a doctorate of divinity by the University of St Andrews. …
Type: Biography