Hugh Thomas Dyke Acland, 1874–1956
Surgeon Hugh Acland was prominent in the public campaign to add iodine to salt in the 1920s.
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Muriel Emma Bell, 1898–1974
Muriel Bell was the first woman to gain an MD from the University of Otago, and she wrote a thesis on the problem of goitre. Her research helped bring about the introduction of iodised salt which greatly reduced the incidence of the condition.
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Mary Isabel Lambie, 1889–1971
In the early 1920s nurse Mary Lambie collected data in Christchurch on the prevalence of enlarged thyroid glands (goitre), which helped bring attention to the problem of the low iodine content of New Zealand soils.
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