HEALTH STAMPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 January 1939, Page 8

HEALTH STAMPS

GENEROUS CHRISTMAS GIVING.

The Health Stamp Campaign made a substantial advance during the Christmas season when the movement foi’ the benefit of backward and undernourished children was well remembered by the public. The net' receipts from stamp sales from the commencement of the Campaign to January 7 totalled £5,014 and, together with donations received, the various Health Camps of the Dominion have been credited to the extent of more than £6,000.

The Health Camp movement aims at assisting back to normal health and vigour a number of children who are definitely in need of skilled care and regulated rest and diet. Children in the Health Camps are all subject to the kindly attention of skilled observers, and in most cases clinical information is systematically recorded in respect to each child. From these observations it is possible to prove how well the Health Camps succeed in them objective. Tn the Camp at Waikato Heads, conducted by the Children’s Camp League, last season’s experience was that the average gain in tveight for each child in 2! weeks was 2.051 b for the boys and 2.021 b for the girls, while the greatest gain was 5.21 b. At the other end of the Dominion in one of the Dunedin Camps the average gain in weight was 2jlb per child. The smallest individual increase in weight among the children at the Marlborough Health camp last year was 21b, and, in addition to this gratifying indication of improved physique, quite a number of children increased in height by .j inch. In the Health Camps of the Christchurch district it was found last season that the greatest gain in weight among 225' children was 61b and in height 1 inch, the average improvement per child being an increased height of i inch and a gain in weight of from to 4.11 b.