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Early care: 'Granny' Smithson, midwife

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Early care: 'Granny' Smithson, midwife

In the 19th and early 20th centuries babies were delivered by midwives as well as by doctors. 'Granny' Smithson, seen here in the mid-1930s, was a midwife who worked in Levin from the 1890s to the 1930s.

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Kete Horowhenua, Horowhenua Historical Society

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Michael Belgrave, Primary health care – Early primary health care, mid-19th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/31512/early-care-granny-smithson-midwife (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Michael Belgrave, i tāngia i te 21 April 2011.