OPEN AIR TREATMENT

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43093, 16 May 1907, Page 4

OPEN AIR TREATMENT

appealing for 1 “a reversion to a re natural mode of life,” Dr. Mason, pef Health Officer’, made some inesting remarks about open-air atment in Wellington recently. The latest defence against ill-health, he p, was fresh air, and the greatest large man had to contend against I present was Consumption. Last Ir consumption in England and les alone claimed 66.000 deaths. At I sanatorium in Cambridge, in New Band, a good percentage of cures I being effected. Many of Ihe paIts went to the institution literI buried in clot.hies. At first they I they would die if they were obII to discard some of thieir gar■s, but in time they were found ■king about in the open air with ■y covering, and rapidly mani■ig the benefits of the treatment, ■entally Dr. Mason protested ■stt this habit of hiding balby in B'-s packed with feathers, where ■resh air entered not.