GEORGE V MEMORIAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 111, 27 May 1937, Page 14

GEORGE V MEMORIAL

Medical Profession Endorses Appeal for Camps HEALTH OF CHILDREN The jmportance of children 's health camps from a medical viewpocnt was emphasised by Dr. T. D. M. Stout, president of the New Zealand braneb ; of the British Medical Association, iD a statement supplementing the appeal for the King George V. Nationa! Memorial Fund. "The medical profession has always deeply appreciated and profoundly admjired the intelligent and beneficent interest that has continuously been taken in medical science and in the health of the community by members of our beloved Boyal Family," said Dr. Stout. Tho King Edwaj-d VII. Hospital Fund is one concrete illustration of the active and practical interest, in mediicine, taken by the grandfather of our present King. "The late King George V.'s epithct of ' Father of his people,' was most adequately earned by a lifetime of humble and never-ending service on behalf of all his subjects, and he was ever anxious to help, in every way, any pro jeet having as its aim the improvement in the health and welfare of his people and espeeially for the children. Nothing, I am certain, would have given him more pleasure than to give his help and encouragement in the in stitutidn of camps, throughout his Empiire, for the benefit of the health and with it the real happiness of the young children". "I can assure the people of New Zealand that the medical profession' unanimously recommends the objective selected as a memorial in this country. We have watched with the greatest mterest and pleasure the great improvements in the health of the children who have had the privdlege of attending the camps dui'ing the last. few years. Not only has there been improvement in health, which can be measured by the increase in weight, and obyiously improved well being and vitality, but there is, maybe even more lmportant, the traindng of the children In the great arid all-important details of healthy living and a well chosen and balanced diet. The education also of the weakly child to appreciate the open air life must always remain as a ■constant corrective to .any later tendency to ill health. "The children 's health camps are perhape one of the most . 'important steps in preventive medicine so far taken by the community, and the medical profession realising so well what preventive medicine of this type can tiehieve, can do nothing but give it ■its utmost support and commend the movement to the generosity of tho people. "If as I believe, a solid foundatiou can be thereby laid for tho camps to remain as a permanent part of our social life tlie results to the future generations of New Zealanders will be incalculable. I hope that the camps will be always known as tho Kiug George V. Health Camps, a liiving memorial of healthy, active and happy voung children, surely the most" wonrterful memorial that any man, even a king, can be given."