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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

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

Story by Linda Bryder, published 22 March 2011, updated 1 July 2022.