New Britain herald., 1925-07-11
FRESH AIR CAMP
 !k:.ENDS FIRST WEEK
S6 Girls Enjoying Vacation in Hills of Burlington

The New Britain Fresh Air camp
 has completed the first week of It's
 1925 season.
 The first five weeks will be given
 over for girls, the last four weeks
 for boys The season of 1925 will
 be one week less than'last year be-
 cause of the shorter school vacation.
 Due 10 the ever growing popular
 ity of the New Britain Fresh Ar
 camp, a larger number Of children
 have voluntarily applied than ever
 before. When 1t Is considered that
 S75 girls and 404 boys have applied,
 some method of selection must be
 made. The standards by which chill dren have been selected this year are as follows: seven per cent or more underweight, physical de- fects, the average number which is three, under nourished, which lowers the child's resistance to disease. The benefits of the N. B. r. A. c. ere, many. The camp is situated in the town of Burlington and Is about TOO feet above sea level. The diff. ference of air Is noted soon after leaving New Britain and continues n1oreGaifd more - noticeable until camp is reached.
 The camp is conducted on the unit plan. Each unit consisting of
 about IT girls and Is housed in a wooden building with unlimited
 Amocnt of fresh air. Each is In charge of competent counselor. Each is called a bungalow and all bungalows are numbered.
 The result of the Ss girls attend ing camp for the first week are most gratifying. 5All givls are weighed as soon as they reach camp and each week thereatten The total gain in weight
 made by these ss girls for the first week was 154 IA pounds.
 Bungalow No. in charge of Miss Kathryn Trmay had 8 total gain of 59 1-4 pounds, average gain 2 IA pounds. Highest individual gain in
 this unit was Josephine Andrusio who increased her weight four pounds in the first seven days, Bungalow No, in charge of Miss
 Grace Doherty was second on the
 list with total gain of 35 1 4
 pounds, average gain ? 1S pounds
 each. Jeannette Roulier of this unit
 gaining four pounds. ......
 Bungalow NoNSS in charge of Miss
 Lillian Fletcher third on the list
 with total gain oT "A pounds, aver
 sge i 1-2 pounds gain with Sarah
 Bonjiovanin and Pearl Dennehy
 gaining 1-4 pounds each,
 Bungalow No. in charge of Miss
 Dorothy stiquel fourth on the list
 with total gain Of aS pounds, aver
 sge gain 3-4 pounds, Highest person
 al gain in this unit, was made by
 Katherine Rich 5-4 pounds.
 Bungalow No. Tn charge Of Miss
 YafhSriMe Dnhettyg%as tfifth on list
 with a total gain of PISA pounds;
 average gain 7-1s pounds. Kathe-
 rtne Granni is first In this unit with
 . gain of 1-4 pounds.
 A personal home visit has been
 made by Miss Ventlie LogaN, nurse tn charge of the tuberculosis work
 of. the Tuberculosis Relief Society of
 New Britain, following the appHca-
 klon of each child. This insures that
 khe most needy of these cases will
 receive first consideration. Thus
 complete selection follows and ap-
 proyal system does away with the
 haphazatd picking of children who
 attend the N. B. F. A. c. The great need of this work 1s apparent as shown by these personal visits. Sleeping condition of all home visits show an average Of three sleeping in one bed; average number of; members in family, seven; aver age number of rooms of family three. Sanitary conditions are such that the child has very little future of healthy childhood.
 Even in these crowded conditions rot one family was found to have the windows of the s!eeping-roor open all the year around.
 Food habits were found to hs very poor. Some children have nc breakfast, Coffee cookies ant doughnuts are the food that othe' growing children receive.
 The sleeping hours of children " these homes all fall short Of th' amount of sleep required for under nourished. To accommodate th' numbers of children applying, a new unit has been added that will houst 1T extra children,
 The days program is as follows Rise, T:S0; breakfast, 5; nutrition 10: program. 1o:45-11:50; wash up t1.45; rest to 1c: dinner, tc; rest i to 5; swim. to S:45; nutrition 3:45: program, S:45 to S:So; wasl up, S3o; rest, 5;S0 to 5:45; supper S. Evening program: Start to re tire at S:50 all in bed and quiet a sp. m.