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Dr. Thomas Bain Whitton, who died at New Plymouth recently, practised at Naseby from 1874 to 1884, and was surgeon to the Mount loa Hospital. In those days medical practice in the Maniototo district was very strenuous, as the roads -off the main highway were unformed tracks, so that horseback was Die order of the day. Stretching from Stasoby to Pigroot and Hyde in one lireetion, and from Kyelurn diggings to Cambrians in the other, with Hamilions md the Serpentine thrown in, it will be leen that the itinerary was pretty extenlive. Consultations also were few and ar between, as his nearest neighbour ?as at Falmerston on one side and Duntan on the other, consequently Dr. Whilon Ava9 obliged to train his wardsman o give anaesthetics and do his own iperations, except on rare occasions, vhen a serious case necessitated the iresence of another medical man. In 884 Dr. Whitton left Naseby and beanie surgeon to the Reefton Hospital, srhere he carried on an extensive pracice for eighteen years. Subsequently he nigrated, first to Taihape, and then to lie Taranaki district; lie was engaged in iraetice in Inglewood until a few days lefore his death. Dr. Whitton was a iraduate of the Queen's University, Dubin, and had the dfstinction of being one if the few "ad eundum" graduates of the Jew Zealand University. Of a retiring lisposition, he was seldom heard in puh ic, but endeared himself to his patient; iy many acts of unostentatious kindness ie leaves a widow, one son, ami thrci laughters . *

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Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1919, Page 9

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Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1919, Page 9

Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Taranaki Daily News, 13 December 1919, Page 9

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