HEALTH CAMP

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 76, 11 January 1936, Page 6

HEALTH CAMP

SUCCESSFUL FIRST WEEK.

DEPARTMENT OFFICERS' VISIT.

PLEASED WITH ARRANGEMENTS

A very successful week will be concluded at the Children's Health Camp at Staveley to-day. The children are reported to be very healthy and all in good spirits. Nurse M. I. Cox, in charge of the camp, has arrangement working smoothly, and camp life is now run according to a timetable. Assisting Nurse Cox are the camp-mother (Mrs B. J. Constable), the cook (Mrs H. Kooke), and the caretaker (Mr G. R. Ogg), who are working with an enthusiasm which they have succeeded in imparting to the children. Dr. Baker McLaglen, of the Health Department, accompanied by an inspector of the department, visited the camp yesterday, and they expressed themselves as more than pleased with the arrangements for the comfort and well-being of the children. The routine at the camp during the week has been as follows:—Rise at 7.30 a.m., dress and wash; breakfast at 8 a.m., followed by toothbrush, drill at 5.30; free for an hour; morning snack at 10 a.m., followed by half an hour rest; walk till 11.30, followed by a wash; dinner at noon, followed by toothbrush and handkerchief drill; free till 2 p.m.; rest from 2 o'clock till 3 o'clock; afternoon snack at 3.; walk at 3.30; wash at 4.30; tea at 5,. followed by toothbrush drill; games and entertainments in the evening till 7, when the children bath and get ready for bed; lights out at 8 o'clock. While some of the children, when they entered the camp, were unwilling to eat a great deal, all now eat everything that is given then and ask for more. They were to be weighed again to-day, when a comparison will be made with their weights on entering the camp. Three prefects, Misses Joyce Smith, Heni Thompson, and Joan Eden, will replace some whose term ends to-day. Miss R. Chisnall (Eiffelton) will remain for another week, while Miss 0. Bathurst, who has returned to Ashbiirton, will go back to the camp in its later stages. Visitors to the camp will be made welcome at any time.