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Kōrero: Taranaki region

Mobile X-ray unit

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In the 1940s and early 1950s an ‘X-ray bus’ travelled to many rural Taranaki marae, including this one in South Taranaki in 1952. The unit team looked in particular for tuberculosis, which responded well to early detection.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Tuberculosis and Maori people. National Film Unit, 1952

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ron Lambert, Taranaki region – Government, education and health, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/25371/mobile-x-ray-unit (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ron Lambert, i tāngia i te 23 February 2010, updated 1 August 2015.