SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LV, Issue 8607, 15 November 1906, Page 5

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

Further Proceedings at the

Conference.

Proposed Industrial School.

Sanatorium Work

The business of the Conference yesterday embraced educational missionary work and schools, and considerable discussion resulted on the proposed location of the industrial school to be established iv New Zealand. Various sites were recommended, some of the delegates approving the Auckland district and others favouring Wairarapa. Finally it was decided to set up a Committee to make a thorough visit of inspection and ultimately come to a decision on the matter. The area of land required i s between 100 and 150 acres. The usual religious services were conducted yesterday. The Conference will discuss to-day the

medical missionary work, comprising sana-

toriums, health food cafes, food manufacp tures, and the need of young men and women being trained so as to be able to minister both to the body and soul. Conversing this morning with Dr Kress, physician in charge of the Sydney Sanatorium, a Daily Times representative learnt that the sanatorium work was established on a modest scale thirty-five years ago, and has steadily advanced, till at the present time, one institu tion provides for 800 patients and employs 500 persons. The principal sanatorium in Australia is located at Sydney, and the staff comprises three physicians and -13 nurses. The methods of treatment are claimed to be rational—such as water treatment, electri city, massage, physical culture, and corrected dietary, the latter being rigidly, enforced. A sanatorium has also been erected at Christchurch, and one more recently in South Australia, while it is proposed to establish one in Victoria at an early date. The manufacturing of health-foods is an outcome of the sanatorium work. The

patients required special dietary treatment,

and such a demand was created for the Wf preparations that it has culminated in the existence of a very extensive industry today. The foods aro specially prepared for dyspeptics, and for persons who have destroyed their digestive organs through errors and excesses in eating and drinking. Cafes, at which these foods are served, have also been started in various cities, including Sydney and Wellington. Flesh foods are excluded from the menu in the sanatoriums as well as the cafes, and a uric acid free dietary is advocated. Tea, coffee and cocoa are also excluded, this prohibition being found necessary for the recovery of health. The uric acid free dietary is at the present time receiving considerable attention by the medical profession at large, leading authorities on medical subjects advocating dietary in which flesh forms no part, and tea shall absolutely cease to be used. Various pamphlets and booklets are issued by the Adventists, and a monthly magazine is published in America, England, Africa, Germany and Australia. A stock of the , foods and a quantity of literature are kept

at the camp for the inspection of anyone

interested. Dr Kress will give a special Ct talk on the subject of " Our Food and Drink," at 3 o'clock on Sunday afternoon.