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Joan Morice
(1904–1944) First female South African veterinary surgeon
Joan Alison Morice (5 October 1904 – 24 November 1944) was the first woman to qualify and practice as a veterinary surgeon in South Africa.[3][4] She graduated from Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, South Africa in 1927 and it was nineteen years later that the next woman, Maud Bales, qualified as a veterinary surgeon in South Africa.[5] Morice immediately started a private veterinary practice which lasted until 1935. She died at an early age from cancer in 1944.