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Kōrero: Hospitals

Scrubbing up

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Scrubbing up

Hospital staff must be scrupulous about personal hygiene so they do not pass infections on to patients. Dunedin Hospital nurse Patti de Klerk is scrubbing up before an operation.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 23 March 2009

by Jane Dawber

Permission of the Otago Daily Times must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Linda Bryder, Hospitals – The transformation of hospitals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/27544/scrubbing-up (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Linda Bryder, i tāngia i te 22 March 2011, updated 1 July 2022.