HEALTH STAMPS AND HEALTH CAMPS

Evening Star, Issue 23695, 1 October 1940, Page 9

HEALTH STAMPS AND HEALTH CAMPS

Commencing to-day, the Post Office for the eleventh consecutive year will by the sale of health stamps help in the annual appeal for funds for the supprt of children’s health camps. This year’s stamps, like those of last year, are of two denominations, and 3d. They represent postage values of Id and 2d, and contributions to health camps of Jd and Id, respectively. Health camps now play so valuable a part in the care of delicate and debilitated children that the worth of this form of preventive and restorative treatment has come to be fully recognised by the community. Health stamp purchases provide a considerable portion of the funds necessary for this special work among tho children; and the various health camp committees — whose services are entirely voluntary—■ are hopeful that, notwithstanding the difficulties and anxieties of the times and the many other calls on the family purse, public-spirited members of the community will once again rally to the appeal of the children by using health stamps on their letters and other postal correspondence. They will thus continue to earn the thanks of the many thousands of children who year by year are fortified in heatlh to meet the demands of full and useful adult life.