[citation needed] Similar ironies were found overseas—her 1922 book, Safe Marriage: A Return to Sanity, was banned in New Zealand, but published in both Australia and Britain.

[5] In her book Native Diet: With Numerous Practical Recipes, she advocated for the consumption of fish and poultry but not red meat.

She argued that people's health would improve if they cut down on coffee and tea and made their own home-brewed ale and beer.

[6] Rout died age 59 as the result of a self-administered quinine overdose in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands[7] following her sole postwar return to New Zealand in 1936.

[8] In 1992, Jane Tolerton wrote her biography, and more recently, she has been more critically perceived as a "White Australasia" apologist in Philippa Levine's account of contagious disease legislation within the late nineteenth century British Empire.