T.B. CAMPAIGN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 789, 9 October 1929, Page 10

T.B. CAMPAIGN

PENNY “STICKERS” TO BE SOLD FUNDS AND EDUCATION Press Association PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Today. The sale of a penny ''sticker” to be attached to letters, will serve the dual purpose of raising funds and stimulating interest in the campaign against tuberculosis, j With a view to stimulating public i interest, education and support in an anti-tuberculosis campaign throughout New Zealand, the Cabinet has given its approval to trying out the Christmas seal scheme so successful in other countries, states the Minister of Health, the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy. it is proposed to issue through the post, offices over the Christmas season a specially designed supplementary penny stamp, to be voluntarily affixed to letters. The great objective is to stamp out tuberculosis in New Zealand. A definite feature of the scheme this year will be the raising of funds for children’s health camps. Eminent authorities agree that the foundation of health is laid in the care and education of the child from its earliest infancy. Investigations by the Health Department have revealed numbers of New Zealand children suffering from malnutrition. The value of health camps has been established and it is desired to extend them. The fight against tuberculosis is in the last analysis a philanthropic and sociological effort rather than a medi- j cal one through the supreme import- j ance of the application of the prlii- j ciples of preventive medicine for the | creation of a healthy race. li is reported from America that I during the period the seal has been j in existence the death rate from tuber- j culosis has fallen from 198 per 100,000 j population to 95, a saving of over j 100,000 lives last year. The seals j have had an estimable part not only j in raising funds, but in carrying to j millions of people the stimulus to guard against disease.