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Under the government's pharmaceutical benefits scheme, pharmaceutical medicines were made free in 1941. This 1948 cartoon suggests that consumption of medicines – represented by a cupboard full of bottles and boxes – grew a lot in the wake of this change.
Cartoon courtesy of the New Zealand Herald
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: A-311-1-025
by Gordon Edward George Minhinnick
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.