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Relaxing on board the Maheno

Patients relaxing in deck chairs aboard the Maheno. Good food, fresh sea air and massage and other therapy often made a world of difference to patients on the long sea voyage back to New Zealand.  

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  • Evelyn Brooke
    Hospital ships

Keywords

hospital ships
maheno (hospital ship)
health
Credit

Liverpool, Lord (compiler), The New Zealand Hospital Ship ‘Maheno’: the first voyage, July, 1915, to January, 1916, Whitcombe & Tombs, Auckland, 1918-9

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'Relaxing on board the Maheno', URL: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/relaxing-board-maheno, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 19-Aug-2014

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