Dr Margaret Cruickshank

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First NameMargaret BarnetLast NameCruickshankSummaryDoctorDescriptionMargaret Cruickshank was the first woman to be registered as a doctor in New Zealand.She worked tirelessly to serve the people of Waimate during the First World War and the influenza epidemic that followed it in 1918. Tragically she contracted the flu herself and passed away in 1918.

A marble statue was erected in Waimate in 1923 of Dr Cruickshank.

The Aoraki Heritage Collection holds copies of the 2014 biography of Dr Cruickshank "Beyond the splendours of the sunset - to the one satisfying goal : a biography of Margaret Barnett Cruickshank, M. B., Ch. B., University of N.Z., 1897" by David Lockyer. Please contact us for more information.External LinkDNZB: Margaret CruickshankDate of Birth01 Jan 1873Place of BirthPalmerstonDate of Death28 Nov 1918Place of DeathWaimateSubjectBiographyMonumentsHealth

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