OTAKI HEALTH CAMP

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 11

OTAKI HEALTH CAMP

Reopening Decided Upon Before. Christmas, 34 children from the Wellington Salvation Army Home were admitted to the Otaki Children’s Health Camp, of whom 25 were girls between 5 and 15 years of age and the remainder infants. The average age of the 25 girls was 10 years seven months, and during their stay in camp extending over a short period of three weeks the average increase in weight was 4.11 b. a child. The average age of the nine infants was two years nine months, and the average accretion in weight was 2.131 b. a child. These children were not sent to the camp for treatment, but as a holiday, the camp having been closed to children drawn from the usual channels as a precautionary measure against the spread of infantile paralysis. It was decided at a meeting of the health camp executive this week to reopen the camp on Monday, February 15. The following arrangements for admission have been notified:—February 14, Dannevirke children to be admitted; February 15, Wellington children; February 16, Taranaki, children; February 17, East Coast and Hawke’s Bay; February 18, Wairarapa anti Palmerston North.