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Story: Child and youth health

Cod-liver oil time, Ōtaki Health Camp, 1945

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Cod-liver oil time, Ōtaki Health Camp, 1945

Children with health and other problems are sometimes cared for temporarily at health camps. These children are lining up for a dose of cod-liver oil at the Ōtaki Health Camp in 1945.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-001197-F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

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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Kerryn Pollock, Child and youth health – Primary health initiatives, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/30336/cod-liver-oil-time-otaki-health-camp-1945 (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 2 May 2011.