Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-21
HELP TO CHILDREN
Sale of Red Cross Seals Main
tains Day Camp.
CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS
Work Done for Little Ones Suffering
With the Disease Depends on
Receipts Here.

| The day camp maintained by the Dis
| trict Red Cross Society for the benefit of
| children in the District who have tuber-
culosis is the sole beneficiary from the
I sale of the Red Cross Christmas seals in
| Washington. All the proceeds from the
| sale of the little stickers go to aid these
children. The day camp has no other
source of income besides the sale Of the
seals, and the committee in charge of the
sale is particularly anxious that the peo-
pie of Washington should realize this
fact
A great work is being done by the day
camp. say those who have looked into the
matter. From April 1 of this year until
November 10, the camp was in full opera
ton. For several years the camp has
been in existence, and each year it's scope
OF work has increased and developed.
During the months that the camp is
closed the funds of the camp are used to
pay one-half of the salary of a trained
nurse who visits the children and their
mothers IN their homes, seeing that the
methods of prevention and cure are kept
up in the home as well as in the camp.
The other half of the nurses salary is
paid by the Instructive Visiting Nurses
Society
The day camp Is a most democratic
organization, and the little children who
receive the ministrations of the nurses
ana physicians in charge, the wholesome
1000 provided and the good fresh air
all day long are admitted because of
their need for just such attention, WITHOUT
respect to color or race. The mothers
are allowed to come and be with their
children at the camp during the day.
School Teacher at the Camp.
In order that the children may keep
OF md
two months schooling which they would
nave received had they continued at their
schools from April 10 until June Is, a
teacher is employed to instruct the chill
dren at the camp. The mothers who 20
10 the camp with their little children are
taught sewing and other things of value
to housekeepers. the instruction being
gwen by volunteers. In this way. not
nne. open-air life, but their mothers. who
frequently need such treatment as much
as the children. are benefited and made
PETER housewives some Of them becoming
capable seamstresses and abe to earn a
living by their sewing il necessary
During the last season of the camp if
ty-two children We're cared for there.
When the camp closed twenty-five of
these children were SO far recovered from
the effects of the disease that they were
able to return to school again. AS the
name of the camp implies. the children
TOR the most part spend only the days
In the camp and return to their homes
Tor the nights. However. during the sea-
son Just closed, there were two patients
so i'll that they were allowed to remain
I'm the camp both day and night
Careful watch is kept over the children
by the supervisors of the camp, all
changes in their condition being noted
The average gain in weight for all of the
patients, which includes those who i'm
proved as we'll as those who failed to
show Improvement, was two and one-half
pounds. or course, some of the children
made big gains and others small gains,
and others practically remained station
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