CHILDREN’S HEALTH
REOPENING OF ROXBURGH CAMP APPOINTMENT OF STAFF With the lifting of the infantile paralysis restrictions steps are now being taken to reopen the King George V Memorial Children’s Health Camp at Roxburgh. The Health Department has appointed Sister. Robertson as matron and Miss Whitworth as submatron, and they are spending a short time at the Glenelg Health Camp in Canterbury before taking up their duties. The staff for the institution is now being assembled, and it is hoped that the first group of 56 children will be admitted before Easter. They will be drawn from Otago and Southland and will spend two months at Roxburgh.. It is expected that more groups will be admitted during the year than was formerly the case, the reduction of the period of stay in the camp from three months to two months being an experiment with a view to making available the benefits of the camp to a larger number of children.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26709, 2 March 1948, Page 6
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