Nina Catherine Muir

Nina Catherine Muir (20 October 1900–9 June 1981) was a New Zealand doctor.

Early life

Nina Muir (née Howard) was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1900.[1] Her father was Dr Ernest Henry Howard (d. 1954) who practised in Murchison and Taumarunui where he was superintendent of the hospital. Muir went to school at Auckland Girls' Grammar School and graduated from the University of Otago medical school in 1926.

Career

In 1927 Muir became the first woman house surgeon at Wellington Hospital.[2] On moving to Gisborne she worked at Cook Hospital and Te Puia Hospital, attending births and treating patients in remote areas. After her marriage she became the first general practitioner to practise in the maternity unit of Cook Hospital. In 1949–1950 she did a postgraduate diploma in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin.[1]

During the 1940s Muir was the president of the East Coast branch of the British Medical Association.[3]

Personal life

In 1929 she married Percy Rutherford Muir, a Gisborne journalist and printer, whose family owned the Poverty Bay Herald. They had two daughters.[1][4]

Muir died in Gisborne in 1981.[1]

References
  1. Dowding, Shirley. "Nina Catherine Muir". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. Mateparae, Jerry (19 September 2013). "Suffrage dinner speech". gg.govt.nz. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  3. "One-bed rooms". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 23 January 1945. p. 2. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  4. Wright-St Clair, Rex Earl (2003). Historia nunc vivat : medical practitioners in New Zealand, 1840 to 1930 (PDF). Christchurch: Cotter Medical History Trust. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-473-24073-8. OCLC 1017488201.



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