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Dr. Margaret Barnett Cruickshank, M.D., first woman doctor in New Zealand. [With portraits.].

Morrison, Elizabeth,

Dr. Margaret Barnett Cruickshank, M.D., first woman doctor in New Zealand. [With portraits.]. - Whitcombe & Tombs: Christchurch, N.Z., [1924] - 13 pages ;

Margaret Cruickshank was the first woman to be registered as a doctor in New Zealand. From 1897 to 1918 she served the small South Canterbury community of Waimate. She worked tirelessly during the 1918 influenza pandemic but eventually caught the disease herself and died on 28 November 1918.

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Cruickshank, Margaret Barnet, 1873-1918.


Physicians--New Zealand--Waimate (Canterbury)--Biography.
Women physicians--New Zealand--Waimate (Canterbury)--Biography.


Waimate (Canterbury, N.Z.)--History.
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