Child Health Day

Hutt News, Volume 16, Issue 37, 10 March 1943, Page 2

Child Health Day

EHIBITION BY DEPARTMENT HEALTH

An exhibition of great interest to parents and children alike will be opened by the Mayor, Mr. J. W. Andrews, in the Hutt Valley Y.M.C.A Hall, Birch Street, Waterloo, on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock and will continue throughout Friday, 12th March.

This exhibition has been organised by Drs. Marie Buchler and Eeryl Douglas, school medical officers, in conjunction with Miss Maureen Frengley, dictation to the Health De partment, and with the co-operation of the district nurses, Misses McCorinick and Grimmett, and the staff of the Waterloo Dental Clinic.

In the medical examination of school, and pre-school children, it is found that few children can be classed 100 per cent fit. Poor physique, poor posture, fatigue, lack of appetite, anaemia arid dental caries are present in a large proportion of the children and the exhibition has been planned to help parents, in their child health problems. Special stress is laid on the importance of diet, cleanliness, sufficient sleep, correct clothing, footwear and posture, and will be demonstrated by plaster models, posters and sound films. A small section on carriers of disease deals principally with the danger of the common house fly in spreading diseases such as infantile diarrhoea, typhoid, dystentry and eye diseases. Another section deals with common disorders of children, their causes, prevention and treatment. A large diet exhibit arranged and explained by Miss Frengley will feature models of the goods required in every age group of childhood according to the League of Nations standards, also models showing the difference between the quantities of goods actually eaten by the average New Zealander as* compared with the ideal standard. Many posters of interest to housewives show how»skim milk can be used for cooking and what substitute,. could be used for oranges or other nmmon goods, in short supply, also showing the f&ethods by walc » v<4.eiables can be cooked to bfot i- v antage. Different types of echocl J;*> ch with their good values havo bt-en prepared, and other aspects of diet as applied to children will be ccmonstrated.

Educational health films prepared by the Department of Health will also be shown and include a coloured sound film, "Health and Happiness," and ■ the answer to the English factory woman who asks '-'What is being done for my children T' A special diet film "The Proof of the Pudding" and a cartoon "Goodbye Mr. Germ" dealing tuberculosis are of great interest to all.

On Friday the children from five of the schools in close proximity to the Y.M.C.A wll he given the opportunity of seeing this really worthwhile exhibition, and those adults unable to attend on Thursday are in'vited to visit the exhibition on Friday. There is no charge for admiss lon, and the Department of Health •trusts that as many people as possible will avail themselves of this opportunity to gain first hand information.