These children who suffered poliomyelitis are undergoing therapy at the Wilson Home for Crippled Children in Takapuna, Auckland, in 1948. Note the bowed, withered legs of some of them.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Reference:
Weekly Review 348. National Film Unit, 1948.

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