WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17837, 9 October 1929, Page 6

WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS

CAMPAIGN PROPOSED. INTEREST OF PUBLIC SOUGHT. HEALTH CAMP FOR CHILDREN. The Minister of Health, Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, has issued the following memorandum regarding a proposal to launch a campaign to secure the establishment of health camps for children in order to combat the inroads of tuberculosis: — “With a view to stimulating public interest, education, and support in an anti-tuberculosis campaign throughout New Zealand, the Cabinet has given its approval to trying out the Christmas seat scheme so successfully conducted in other countries. "It is proposed In issue through the Post Offices over the Christmas season a specially-designed supplementary penny stamp to be voluntarily affixed lo Idlers. The great objective is to stamp out tuberculosis in New Zealand. “A definite feature of the scheme this year will be the raising of funds for children's health camps. Eminent authorities agree that the foundation of health is laid in the care and education of the child from its earliest infancy. "Investigations by the Health Department have revealed that numbers of New Zealand children are suffering from malnutrition. The value of health camps has been established and we desire to extend them. The fight against tuberculosis is in the last analysis a philanthropic and sociological effort, rather- than a medical one, through lit e supreme importance of file application of ine principles of preventive medicine for the creation of a healthy race. “It, is reported from America that during the period the seal has been in existence the death rate from tuberculosis has fallen from 198 per 100,000 of the population to 95 —a saving of over 100,000 lives. Last year the tiny pieces of paper had an estimable part not only in raising funds, but in carrying to millions of people the stimulus to guard against disease."