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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Medical

Medical.

Douglas Alexander , M.A. (Edin.) M.B.C.M. (Edin.), Physician and Surgeon, Reed Street, Oamaru. Telephone, 7. Bankers, Bank of New South Wales. Dr. Douglas was born at Walker-on-Tyne in the North of England, and was educated in Edinburgh. He gained his M.A. degree at the Edinburgh University in 1888, and having studied medicine, he took his medical degrees in 1892, in which year he arrived in Wellington, by the s.s. “Tainui.” Till 1896 he assisted Dr. W. H. Hosking, of Masterton, in his practice. In that year Dr. Douglas went to England to specially study diseases of the eye, etc., and on his return he settled in Oamaru and established his present practice. Dr. Douglas was married in 1898 to a daughter of the late Mr. J. Wallace Murdoch, Resident Magistrate, of Waikouiti.

Mcadam, Kenneth , M.B., B.Ch., M.R.C.S. (Eng), L.R.C.P. (London), Physician and Surgeon, Eden Street, Oamaru. Telephone, 88. Bankers, Bank of New South Wales. Dr. McAdam was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1870. He was educated in Dunedin, where he arrived with his parents in 1879, and studied for his profession in the same city, where he gained his degrees of M.B. and B.Ch. at the New Zealand University, in 1892. Dr. McAdam was resident surgeon at the Dunedin Hospital for two years, went to London in 1896, and took his degrees in the same year. On returning to the Colony early in 1897 Dr. McAdam settled in Oamaru, and established his present practice.