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… health nurses. They also provided separate ‘reception homes’ or ‘neuropathic hospitals’ for early treatment. New … of patients in mental hospitals. In the same period, a few doctors in general hospitals grew more interested in …
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Part of story: Mental health services
… drinks became available – clean water provided to homes and in public fountains, as well as tea, coffee and fizzy drinks. Doctors turned against heavy drinking and stopped …
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Part of story: Alcohol
… from 1949, and assisting employee George Mason with doctoral studies at the University of California in 1956. … 1982 of a heart attack while working on his holiday home at Simpsons Beach, Whitianga. He was survived by his …
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… Hospital and her midwifery training at Essex Maternity Home, Christchurch. After another short spell at … Although she never mentioned her old career, a visiting doctor once remarked, 'You know Sister Widdowson, you'd have …
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… for consultations or to be treated in his Aramoho nursing home. Patients found his regimen rigorous, but had great … about him, and he seemed to revel in controversy. A local doctor was quoted in his obituary as saying that 'He had …
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… live more than a few years. But he had grown suspicious of doctors and conventional medicine, and through sheer … the greater part of New Zealand’s anti-war literature. His home was frequently searched for subversive material and he … Council. In 1952 the Effords bought their first home, on Windermere Road, where Lincoln landscaped the …
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… Railways. Here, at the age of four, though the family home had no books to speak of, he taught himself to read. In … with giving him an ordered sense of literature. But he was homesick for Southland, and the freedom of its fields and … He was particularly delighted by the award of an honorary doctorate from Otago in 1984, and was appointed a CBE in the …
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… before opening a petrol station in front of the family home in 1928. Minnie briefly operated a number of small … shortly afterwards, and found congenial work in a local doctor’s surgery, where she could occasionally read during … her mother needed full-time care. Although of a reserved, home-loving disposition, Ruth was energised by the move and …
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… of the institution. A spate of infant deaths in the home in 1898 did little to improve matters, and may have … established by Mother Aubert in Wellington was St Joseph's Home for Incurables, opened in Buckle Street in 1900. Although the home's title was regarded by some doctors as unduly negative, like the day nursery it met a …
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… skilled bacteriologist, and one of the very few New Zealand doctors to possess a diploma in public health, Mason's first … retired list in March 1917. James Malcolm Mason died at his home in Lower Hutt on 9 May 1924 after a year's illness with … his Scots tongue agreeably accented the many stories of a doctor's life with which he lightened the afflictions of his …
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… For a time there was a reluctance to accept a Māori doctor of unknown capabilities. Wī Repa found it difficult … introduction of guaranteed payments from public funds for doctors by the Social Security Act 1938 eased much of his … up his medical work. On occasion he was able to welcome home the wounded and the survivors from the war, including …
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… Auckland, and remained there until 1936. After returning home Rangihau had a succession of jobs in the Bay of Plenty. … of the 28th New Zealand (Māori) Battalion, returning home with the battalion after the end of the war. From 1946 … in various government departments. Earlier he had guided doctors of the Department of Health, who were researching …
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… very happy’. Despite the mud in winter and never having a doctor up the creek in two years, they were. Ruth … at Ōakura. In 1964 they returned to Auckland and built a home at Weymouth on the Manukau Harbour. There Ruth and Ian … was to research and writing, Ruth always put her family, home and garden first. In 1959 she had reluctantly agreed to …
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… School and co-operation was possible with the School of Home Science, which was headed by her friend Dr Elizabeth … based at Harvard University in 1952, when she interviewed doctors about experiments with fluoridated water supplies, … of Health. As part of her duties she gave lectures in home science at Otago and at the postgraduate school for …
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… Architects The very next day, Athfield started work from home, calling his practice Athfield Architects. Home was in the northern suburb of Khandallah, where he and … and Victoria University of Wellington made him an Honorary Doctor of Literature in 2000. The New Zealand Institute of …
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… Ellinor (Nelly) Butler, an Australian nurse who on her way ‘Home’ had met and married George Edward Wilkinson, an … concealed from her family. She installed him in a nursing home and he was later fostered by a family in Auckland. Hyde … as a voluntary patient. In this refuge, encouraged by her doctors, Henry Buchanan and Gilbert Tothill, she resumed …
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… resources, but also conflicted with his desire to be near home. Aspey gained valuable experience in orchestral … on the Kapiti Coast. Vincent was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Victoria University of Wellington in … leader and performer of music’. Vincent Aspey died at his home in Raumati on 18 April 1987, survived by his wife and …
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… was very successful. With Finsch's help he received a doctorate in natural history from the university of Tübingen … back to New Zealand in 1890, Buller established a country home at Lake Papaitonga, Horowhenua, on land leased and … of it, the success he mainly strove for, and won, was at Home, in England. …
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… to avoid giving them beer, wine or spirits, unless under doctor's orders. 5. To pray for them daily, and to teach … of marriage; and that on the holy associations of home, much of my children's spiritual wellbeing in afterlife … on maternal devotion and women’s responsibilities to home and family. The Anglican Church was at first heavily …
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Part of story: Anglican Church
… of Annette Clarke and her husband, Dugald McKellar, a doctor. When Georgina was about 10 years old the family … and her daughters moved to New Plymouth. Their Ōmatā home was burnt, crops destroyed and livestock carried off. … measured by a reviewer's comment that the plates brought 'home to us, as never before, the gorgeousness of the New …
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