FIRST WOMAN DOCTOR IN NEW ZEALAND
ro THE EDITOR Sir,—ln a memoir written by me some time ago on Dr M. B. Cruickshank, I asserted that she was the pioneer of women’s medical work in New Zealand, I endeavoured to make it clear that she was the pioneer in the sense bf actually beginning practice, I wrote: “She was the pioneer of women’s medical work in New Zealand, as her fellow-student. Dr Emily H. Siedeberg. began practice a little later."
In the sense of approaching academic authorities and beginning the study of medicine, Dr Siodeberg-McKinnon was certainly the pioneer, but she was not the pioneer in actually beginning practical work as a doctor. It is regretted by Dr Siedeberg-McKinnon that I did not submit by memoir to Miss C. M Cruickshank before publi cation in order to have inaccuracies corrected I should like to say that my manuscript was submitted to Miss C. M. Cruickshank, and entirely approved by her.—l am, etc., Elizabeth J. Morrison.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23418, 5 February 1938, Page 24
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