HEALTH STAMPS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 365, 29 October 1932, Page 6

HEALTH STAMPS

FURTHER ISSUE PROPOSED FOR CHILD HEALTH CAMPAIGN The Government proposes once again to issue health stamps, on the same lines as last year. "The stamps may be used in payment of the postage on correspond'ence addressed to any part of the world but cannot be used in payment of Stamp Duty.

Cabinet, on the recommendation of the Minister of Health, will de'termine the allocation of the net proceeds of the saies of the stamps. The purpose of the fund raised is to assist in the establishment and maintenance of children's Health Camps. There are already in existence organisations having their own land and buildings; and these organisations are subsidised according to the district's contribution to the fund. The principal base in the North Island is at Otaki, where tbe building has been in continuous ocpupation since January last. The bulk of the fund for the first two years was spent on this building after the site was donated. Last year's contribution from the South Island, however, remains intact,.except for one small subsidy. The establishment and control of the camps and the selection of children for admission will be subject to the approval of the Director-General of Health. The movement is a first line attack on incipient tuberculosis. The opinion is definitely held by medical authorities that many children who are contaets of tuberculosis in their own homes may be saved from contracting tlm disease if they are removed for a time to a health camp in the country. It is to help children whose parents cannot afford to provide this protection from the danger of infection" that the appeal is made. Malnutrition is a serious factor in breaking down natural resistance and in present times many of the children selected for treatment are from the homes of.the unemployed. Definite tuberculosis cases are not taken into the camps.