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Kōrero: Child and youth health

Ear check, 1993

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Ear check, 1993

Porirua boy Leo Malaulau has his hearing tested by nurse Anne Barclay in a mobile clinic in 1993. The incidence of hearing problems and infections like glue ear in young children was high in Porirua at the time.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1993/2699

by Mark Coote

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.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Kerryn Pollock, Child and youth health – Cot death, obesity and other child-health issues, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/30325/ear-check-1993 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 2 May 2011.