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Hull's first female GP is being remembered as playing a key part in helping to grant women the vote. Dr Mary Murdoch, who spent time in Hull between 1893 and 1916, campaigned to improve the health of women and children during her years as a practitioner in the city. But it was her role as a suffragist which was just as influential as we mark 100 years today of women gaining the right to vote. Dr Murdoch was the first woman in Hull to practice medicine and founded Hull's first branch of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Society in 1904. Cecile Oxaal of the Hull Amnesty Group paid tribute to Dr Murdoch's work in this interview with 大象传媒 Political Reporter Sarah Sanderson. She says "Dr Murdoch certainly would have seen that all her patients and the people she dealt with, both men and women, needed to have a vote. Dr Murdoch herself said that unless you're represented in the affairs of your country by the vote, your life is not of such value." Dr Mary Murdoch died in 1916 with thousands of mourners (men, women and children) lining the streets of Hull to pay their respects to a woman who dedicated her life to help others. The Representation of the People Act 1918 was passed on 6 February 2018, giving women over the age of 30 who met certain property requirements the right to vote. Women under the age of 30 had to wait another decade before being enfranchised.