BACK TO HEALTH

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 16

BACK TO HEALTH

CHILDREN’S CAMP ON WAIHEKE ISLAND CURATIVE TREATMENT Sun and fresh sea breezes, natural aids to health, are being employed to the fullest extent tor the benefit of physically lethargic children, who have been installed in the new health camp, commenced by the Community Sunshine Association on Waiheke Island. The camp is extended over five or six weeks, but it is hoped to have it open continuously throughout the year ! so that children may be sent for treat- | ment at any time. The little inmates have the benefit i of expert nursing and medical attention, and are placed on scientific diets, while their recreation, sleep and study are similarly adjusted. The camp is really an adjunct to the j Sunshine School in Nelson Street, to be opened with resumption of the j schools. It is supervised by the association president. Mrs. N. E. Ferner. The Health Department fully approves of and is actively co-operating in the scheme. Sisters Atkinson and Carlton Cook, departmental nurses, | are in charge of the children, and j medical officers . pay regular visits, j Many applications are being received for the admission of children, but only i those selected by departmental nurses 1 as being fit subjects for treatment are admitted to the camp, and every ! precaution is taken to ensure no J child suffering from infectious disease is admitted. With a verandah GOft by tbit, fat ing ! the sun and sea. the house n which \ the first batch of children has now been accommodated was given to the Sunshine Association by Mr. and Mrs. L. Arnoldson. Mrs. Ferner speaks in terms of high praise of the work performed by the Ostend residents’ committee over several weeks to make the place suitable for occupation. Fourteen men from the Teachers’ Training College visited Ostend last month to excavate the foundations for a hall and diningroom. which it is hoped to erect during the summer months. Mrs. Ferner expresses her gratitude to these men, and also to the city firms which generously provided stores and goods, and to the Northern Steamship Company and Messrs. Bradley and Binns for gratuitously conveying the children and all stores and furnishings needed at the house.