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STATE HOUSES

QUESTION OF OPENAIR ACCOMMODATION IMPORTANT TO HEALTH OF CHILDREN. CONSIDERATION BY PLUNKET SOCIETY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The lack of open-air sleeping and playing accommodation for children in State houses was brought before the notice of the Dominion Council Of the Plunket Society recently by the Pahiatua branch of the society as the result of a visit by one of the members to a State housing area. In urging that the importance of this matter be brought before the notice of the authorities, Mrs H. Paterson (Pahiatua) said the trend of the day was to provide open-air schools. The same principles should be recognised in the building of houses. She instanced a particular case of a baby having shown a marked improvement in health within a fortnight as the result of sleeping in the fresh air. though no other change had been made in the treatment of the child.

Miss Fitzgibbons, nursing adviser to the council,. said the point raised by the Pahiatua branch was one which had frequently been commented on by the Plunket nurses.

Another speaker said a veranda was preferable to a sunporch to ensure a maximum amount of fresh air, as so often a so-called sunporch was merely another room which cut off the direct access of air and sunlight to rooms behind it.

Dr Helen Deem, medical adviser to the council, recommended that -in approaching the authorities the society should submit a constructive plan, and a sub-committee was appointed with power to act in the direction indicated.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1941, Page 4

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256

STATE HOUSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1941, Page 4

STATE HOUSES Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1941, Page 4

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