HEALTH CAMPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 3

HEALTH CAMPS.

HAPPY CHILDREN. FIFTY LEAVE FOR ONEROA. MOTUIHI DRAFT TO-MORROW. Hundreds of children in the city and in the country ar«t looking forward to happy and health-giving days in camp. To-day a party of 50 left for the City Mission's health camp at Oneroa, and to-morrow a large party will travel to Motuihi Island. After three weeks in the fresh air, with good food and ample exercise, they will return immensely benefited, for the children who are chosen are those who most need these things. With smiling faces in spite of the cold and the rain, ;">() children boarded the s.s. Duchess this morning to make their home for the next three weeks at the City Mission's health camp at Oneroa, Waiheke Island. All the children are class B. improvements carried out at the camp this year will provide added comfort in the event of bad weather. The children are in charge of Mrs. A. Wilkie, who will act as camp commandant, and Nurses I. Watts and B. Thompson. If necessary the camp will be available for a further batch of delicate children when those who left to-day return home. There was a busy scene at the Sunshine School in Nelson Street this morning, when a large number of children were subjected to medical examination in preparation for the opening of the Community Sunshine Association's health camp at Motuihi Island. Delayed as a result of the infantile paralysis restrictions, the camp will be opened to-morrow, and the first party, comprising 130 children, will leave for the island in the morning. They are classed in category C as under-developed. and include a number from country districts. Remaining in camp for throe weeks, thev will be followed bv further drafts. On the lifting .of the epidemic restrictions, the opening of health camps was authorised by the Health Department, subject to the children being medically examined before they entered the i camps. At the Sunshine School to-day the examination was made by Dr. R. B. Phillipps, Dr. Mary Wilson and nurses of the Department.