New Britain herald., 1924-06-04
New Britain Fresh Air Camp is
 in Need of Additional Buildings
Present Accommodations Will Not Take Care of More Than Half the De- mand-Camp to Open June 24-S. M. Brewster to Have Charge.

| So rapidly has the New Britain
 Fresh Air camp grown that the pres ent buildings are entirely inadequate to handle the demand for increased facilities being made this summer. ac- cordlng to Miss Ventlie Logan, seere- tary and one of the founders of the camp.
 The officials have decided to take boys and girls for the entire 10 weeks to the fullest capacity of the present buildings, including the barn which has been used as sleeping place for older boys for the past two or three years. The buildings however will not accommodate more than half the num- Der of undernourished children in the city who need a few weeks of sun shine, fresh air and expert supervision to help bring back the glow of health.
 The entire capacity of the camp is S65 children, for two week period, or 8 total of 7S0 child weeks. This maximum is reached by taxing the camp to it's utmost and yet it is not half enough for what is needed. The officials of the camp will not accept a child who is less than seven per cent under weight, yet the school nurses Misses Cecelia Meehan, and Nellie and Mary O'Brien and Dr. V. J. Smith have list only partially com plete of more than 400 children who are more than 10 per cent under weight. This 400, comprising only a partial list, is in addition 10 the 800 or more children who were aceommodat- ed last year.
 Asked what she was going to do about 1t, Miss Logan said She did not know, that unless some miracle hap pened to build an addition to one or both of the present buildings, or 10 put up new building, several hun dred children were going to be dis appointed.
 Camp officials
 !. The camp officials have selected Rs general camp director this year. Searle M. Brewster. Mir. Brewster has been playground supervisor in this city for the last two or three years He is physical director at the Central Junior High school and holds the rank of captain in the officers reserve corps of the U. S. army. He is an overseas man and has been leader in ath- leties and training all his life. He came to this city from Hartford where he was a physical director at the Hartford high school.
 He will select his own assistants as counsellors to handle the boys and will have personal charge of Mill stones as well. Assisting Mir. Brew ster and in charge Of Brookside will be Miss ventlie Logging who is in charge of tuberculosis relief work in the city and has been secretary of the Fresh Air camp ever since it was or ganized.
 Brookside. which Is new house re- gently added to the camp, will be open all summer this year. and will be un- der the personal supervision of Miss Logan. Three girl counsellors will be selected by committee consisting of Miss Logan and Mrs James II. Rob inson. One of the girls also will act as matron.
 No special dietician will be engaged this year, since the dietetic program, which has been worked out previously by Miss Logan will be followed out this year and she will assist Mir. Brew ster in following it out.
 Brookside Kept Open
 The plan has been adopted of de- voting half of the 10 weeks to boys and the other half 10 girls. in both houses. rather than closing down the Brookside house after the first five weeks this year. Everyone on the staff probably will remain the entire 10 weeks
 Brookside will be used exclusively for children needing special care, | whose physical defects exclude them from the regular camp activities. Mir. | Brewster plans to make a change In | the program and will adapt the pro gram to the children this year, rather | than making the children fit the pro- l gram.
 Miss Anna Deutsch. who has been | cook there for several years, has been | engaged In a similar capacity this year.
 The camp will open on June 24. | The children are being exa mined now |  by Dr. Samuel Delsno, an expert on | this type Of work and are being | grouped and classified according to | their physical defects. Besides the | school physicians and nurses the i Relief society. the Vel | fare association. the Visiting Nurses and the City Mission arc recommend | ing for camp children who are under nourished. physically defective or with a tibercular taint.
 This is the sixth year for New Britain's Fresh Air movement, aI- | though only the fourth year for the | Fresh Air camp. In 1918 the Tuber- culosis Relief society sent a group Of children to country homes around the state. This proved a success and was followed ih 1919. In 1920 the New Britain Fresh Air camp was founded hy this society as separate corpora ton and has been growing steadily ever since. Ii now has reached point where more room is needed to carry on the work.