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Participants at an Infection Control Seminar, Palmerston North Hospital

Description: Seated in the front row, left from right: Gordon Scrimgeour, Medical Microbiologist, Palmerston North Hospital; Unknown; Marie Fergus, Infection Control Nurse, Dunedin; Berry Bird, Infection Control Nurse, Palmerston North Hospital.

This photograph comes from the Berry Bird Papers, held in the Palmerston North Community Archives. Berenice (Berry) Joubert Bird (1934-2020) was a nurse and leading advocate of infection control inititatives in the New Zealand healthcare system. In November 1976, Bird was appointed Staff Nurse in Infection Control at Palmerston North Hospital. She was promoted to the position of Charge Nurse Infection Control in 1980, then later to Nursing Supervisor, and subsequently Manager of Infection Control.