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WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY

Cunninghame, J Keith

John Keith CUNNINGHAME

MB ChB (NZ) 1933, FRCS (Eng) 1939

Born 20 Nov 1909 Died Wellington 2 Jul 1957
Jake Cunninghame
Educated at Palmerston North Boys’ High School
HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1934 – 1935
RMO, Royal Masonic Hospital, London
Orthopaedic Registrar, Wellington Hospital 1940 – 1945
Full-time Orthopaedic Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1945 – 1950
Visiting Orthopaedic Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1951 – 1957
Visiting Orthopaedic Surgeon, Palmerston North, Hawera and Wairau Hospitals
Known as ‘Jake’ to his friends and colleagues.

Obituary: NZMJ 1957 56:465
photograph courtesy NZMJ