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Margaret Caro
Margaret Caro (17 December 1848 – 19 May 1938) was a New Zealand dentist, social reformer, lecturer, vegetarian and writer. In 1881 she was the first woman to be listed on the Dentists' Register of New Zealand.[1] BiographyCaro was born in Richmond, Nelson. In 1864 she married Dr J.S. Caro and they lived in the South Island.[1] They moved to Napier in 1878 where she practiced dentistry for 25 years.[2] Caro joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1888 after going to evangelistic meetings held by A. G. Daniells.[1] She was converted to vegetarianism by Daniells who had preached food reform and the advantages of a vegetarian diet at Hawke's Bay Region.[3] Caro was a former slaughterhouse inspector but became a vegetarianism activist. After 1899, she joined the Christchurch Vegetarian Society, even though she still lived in Napier.[3] Caro put together weekly vegetarian dinner recipes for the average working man that were published in the White Ribbon temperance magazine.[3] In 1902, she advocated vegetarianism at the conference of the National Council of Women. Caro's son Edgar was also a vegetarian and was the editor of the New Zealand Health Journal.[3] Caro died in Wellington in 1938.[2] Selected publications
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