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Certification

This document certified that Thomas Morland Hocken had been admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1859 – this meant that he was a qualified doctor. Certification processes like this helped orthodox doctors gain control of primary health care.

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Hocken Collections, University of Otago

Reference: S11-042c

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Michael Belgrave, Primary health care – Establishing medical control, late 19th and early 20th centuries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/31517/certification (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Michael Belgrave, published 21 April 2011.