Personal details
Full Name:
- Margaret Cruickshank
Lifetime:
- 1 Jan 1873–28 Nov 1918
Biography

Margaret Cruickshank was the first woman to be registered as a doctor in New Zealand. She worked tirelessly during the 1918 influenza pandemic but eventually caught the disease herself and died on 28 November 1918.
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3 May 1897New Zealand's first woman doctor registered
Margaret Cruickshank, the first female doctor registered in New Zealand, practised in Waimate, South Canterbury, until her death from influenza in 1918. Read more...
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Main image: Margaret Cruickshank
Margaret Cruickshank, New Zealand's first registered woman doctor, pictured at her graduation from University of Otago Medical School, circa 1897.