Baker McLaglan, Eleanor Southey (1879–1969)
Baker McLaglan, Eleanor Southey (1879–1969)
New Zealand physician and writer. Name variations: Eleanor Southey Baker. Born Eleanor Southey Baker, Sept 13, 1879, in Akaroa, New Zealand; died Sept 20, 1969, in Auckland; dau. of Thomas Southey Baker (stock owner) and Josephine Harriet Anne (Dicken) Baker; University of Otago Medical School, 1903; m. Sydney Leopold Temple McLaglan (military officer), 1923.
Served in various medical positions throughout New Zealand before returning to Kopuru, Northland, to establish a country practice in 1914; acted as agent of Department of Public Health during smallpox epidemic (1913); appointed to school medical service in Canterbury-Westland by Department of Education, where she brought innovative treatments to children (1914); published in New Zealand Medical Journal (1920s); retired from school medicine (1940); helped to administer geriatric hospital near Wellington until early 1950s.
See also autobiography, Stethoscope and Saddlebags (1965); Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (Vol. 3).