HEALTH CAMP

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19436, 23 October 1925, Page 10

HEALTH CAMP

FIXED FOE NEXT MONTH. 100 CHILDREN TO" BE GIVEN ATTENTION. Dr Gunn, medical officer of the Wanganui Education Board, proposes to ! conduct another health camp at Tura ■kina, commencing on November 16 ■next, and at Wednesday night’s meet ling of the Education Board she applied I for assistance in her endeavour to improve the health of children suffering from various complaints. The doctor I proposes to take 100 children into | .-amp —52 from Wanganui, 35 from Palmerston North, and the remainder from Feilding. I In making her appeal, Dr. Gunn said I they hoped to have another health ! camp with the Board’s permission. Mr ■ Lethbridge had promised to make donations of firewood and vegetables ' to the camp. In the past they had had in the camps 325 children, and of this number 265 had been definitely cured. After what Mr Lethbridge would donate, it would cost Is per day ■ to maintain a child tn camp. It was suggested that the children should pay for their attendance, but she did not favour that course. Although Is a day did not sound much, it worked out at £5 per day for the one hundred children she proposed to take to camp this year. The board had always helped, and she was desirous of their

offering suggestions in this case. Groceries and vegetables were required, and probably would be forthcoming from merchants. Mr Birnie suggested that Dr. Gunn should approach the Rotary Clubs in Palmerston and Wanganui and ask them for a donation of £lOO each towards the health camp. He felt sure that they would support the movement. He thought the request was quite a rational one to make. He would see that the doctor got the money required. ______