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- Title
- Born in New Zealand
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
This National Film Unit production was made to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Plunket Society. Plunket — aka ‘Karitane’ — nursing is a New Zealand system of ante-natal and post-natal care for mothers and infants, founded by Sir Truby King: “the man who saved the babies”. Featuring original nurse Joanne MacKinnon, the film follows Plunket from a time of high infant mortality to providing contemporary nursing to a New Zealand flush with postwar optimism: “a family country, where children g...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1958
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/born-in-new-zealand-1958
- Related subjects
- plunket / baby / babies / birth / neonatal / antenatal / nurse / plunket book / joanna mackinnon / joanna murray / hospital / karitane / timaru / otago / plunket ball / postwar / national film unit / nfu / midwife / midwifery / incubator / nursing / medicine / dunedin / kindergarten / dominion training centre / anderson's bay / sun / suburbia / queen mother / royal tour / duchess of york / wanganui / christchurch / invercargill / whanganui / joanne mackinnon / joanne murray / truby king
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