DR. DORIS CORDON, M.B.E.
Dr. Doris Clifton Gordon, M.8.E., of Stratford, was born in Victoria, and was educated at the University of Otago, where she graduated MB., Ch.B., in 1915. In 1916 and 1917 she was on the staff of the Dunedin Hospital and a lecturer at the Otago Medical School. She took up general practice at Stratford in 1918, and has always been specially interested in maternal and infant welfare. She was the first woman in Australia and New Zealand to secure a Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1927 she founded the Obstetrical Society (New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association) and promoted and organised the Obstetrical Endowment Appeal, which resulted in the raising of £31,750 in 1930.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 10
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