CHILDREN GOING TO NORTH

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25380, 31 December 1947, Page 4

CHILDREN GOING TO NORTH

—« — RATION BOOKS MUST BE PRODUCED

Before issuing permits to Children under 16 to travel to the North Island, on the ground that their homes are there and they are returning, the Health Department in Christchurch will in future insist on ration books being produced to ensure that the intending travellers are in fact domiciled in the North Island. This was announced yesterday by the Assistant-Medical Officer of Health for the Canterbury-West Coast District (Dr. D. P. Kennedy). Christchurch and the whole of the health district still had a clean bill of health for infantile paralysis. Dr. Kennedy said, and he urged all parents to observe precautions ever the New Year holidays. The main precautions to be watched. Dr. Kennedy said, could be listed as follows:

Keep body resistance high in children by giving a balanced diet, and by not allowing children to become overtired by too much playing or swimming.

Swimming is allowed, but children should not stay in the water too long and get chilled. Excessive sunbathing should be avoided, and children should keep their hats on x during the hotter parts of the day. Personal hygiene, including hand washing after using the lavatory and before meals, must be observed.

Wage war on flies, by killing them and preventing them breeding and by keeping food well away in safes.