It wasn’t always this complicated

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It wasn’t always this complicated

Barbara Docherty

Barbara Docherty

at the beach, 1964
In the era of State houses and non-pasteurised milk, kids spent a lot of time outdoors [Image: NZD]

Nurse Barbara Docherty looks back through the decades to a simpler era of self-reliance

Probably 98 per cent of what ails us we can sort out for ourselves and only the other two per cent requires serious intervention “Kiss it better