Dr Alfred GINDERS - Physician, and sometime Resident Medical Officer of the Government Sanatorium, Rotorua

IN MEMORIAM
Dr Alfred GINDERS
Who died at Devonport
12th November 1898
Aged 67

Oneils Point Row P Plot 112

For portrait of Alfred, see comments section below.

Alfred was for many years in charge of the Government Sanatorium, Rotorua
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He resigned only a few days before his death.[8]

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 269, 14 November 1898, Page 5
DEATH OF DR. GINDERS.
The death is announced of Dr. Ginders, late medical superintendent at the Rotorua Sanatorium.
For some time Dr. Ginders has been in poor health, and a few months since he was compelled to ask for three months' leave of absence, and came to Devonport for medical attendance. Acting under the advice of his, doctor, Dr. Ginders sent in his resignation to the Government. Dr. Ginders has been the medical superintendent at Rotorua for fourteen years, having succeeded , Dr. Lewis on January Ist, 1885. He was well known throughout Australasia, and had a wide knowledge of the curative properties of the various hot springs in the thermal districts. He was 67 years of age. The funeral took place this afternoon, leaving for O'Neill's Point Cemetery, at two o'clock. [4]

1888, burning of Rotorua Hospital
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The Government instructed Alfred to visit Tokoanui and report upon the leprosy said to exist amongst the Maoris there[6] . Reported outcome below.
Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2480, 1 August 1890, Page 2
Leprosy Among the Maoris.
The report by Dr Ginders on leprosy among the Maoris at Taupo and Rotorua has been laid on the table of the House of Representatives. His conclusions are that the disorder known to the Taupo and East Coast tribes as "ngere-ngere," to the Ngapuhi and Northern tribes as puhipuhi," and to the Wanganui and Western tribes as tuwhenua," is one and the same disease, and is true leprosy. "No one," the report adds," who has seen leprosy could possibly mistake the symptoms presented by the two cases inspected. The general consensus of opinion amongst the Maoris is that the disease first appeared on this Island at Hauraki sometime during the latter half of the seventeenth century. Dr Ginders thinks it may be regarded as true that it was probably introduced by the marooning of a leper from a ship, possible a whaler, near Hauraki. The term “Wero ngerengere" is the term applied to the art of communicating the disease by puncture or inoculation. In all probability the worst cases have arisen from inoculation, either accidental or premeditated, experience showing that it is not infectious or contagious in the ordinary sense. Dr Ginders concludes by saying that complete segregation of those affected would probably stamp out the disease in a few years. [7]

In 1891 a report he made on the Hanmer sanatorium was issued as a parliamentary paper[2]

Ginders, Alfred, M.D., L.R.C.P. (Edin.), F.F.P.S. (Glas.), Physician, and sometime Resident Medical Officer of the Government Sanatorium, Rotorua. Dr. Ginders was born at Sandon, Staffordshire, England, in 1831, and was the son of Mr. Jeremiah Ginders, formerly agent to the Earl of Shrewsbury. He was educated at a private school in Stafford, and at Ashbourne Grammar School, Derbyshire; he entered Glasgow University in 1862, took his F.F.P.S., and subsequently his degree of L.R.C.P. at Edinburgh. In 1874 he gained his M.D. at St. Andrew's, Glasgow. Dr. Ginders practised at Surinam. Dutch Guiana, during 1866–7 and afterwards at Normanton, Yorkshire, until May, 1878, when he left for Auckland and settled at Tauranga, where he practised up to 1884. The late Hon. John Ballance then appointed him to the position of Resident Medical Officer at Rotorua, where he designed and carried out most beneficial plans for the convenience, comfort, and skilful treatment of the numerous patients attending the wonderful sanatorium of Rotorua. Dr. Ginders was made a J.P. in 1889, became a member of the Rotorua Town Board on arrival in the district, and was one of the chief promoters of the improved sanitary arrangement of the township. He was a Freemason, having been initiated in 1866 in Commercial Lodge of Glasgow, S.C., at an emergency meeting prior to his leaving Scotland for Dutch Guiana. Dr. Ginders died in the early part of November, 1898. [1]
FAMILY INFORMATION:

Alfred’s wife died in Christchurch 1915. [1]

Alfred and his wife had issue of a son H. GINDERS, who as of 1915 was formerly of Masterton.[1]

Also their eldest son drowned on 27 October 1892 when the steamship Roumania (sic) was wrecked off the coast of Portugal. He was the surgeon on board at the time who had only recently passed his examination and was aged 35. He left a widow residing in England.[5]

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[4]
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also another obituary
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[8]
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