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REST CAMP FOR CHILDREN WILL OPEN MONDAY

TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETY PROVIDES FOR FRAIL YOUNGSTERS AT BACHMAN'S

     With seventy children--boys and girls ranging in age from 7 to 12 years--as guests, the free rest camp, owned and operated by the Dallas Tuberculosis association, is to open Monday at the camp site at Bachman's dam, according to John W. Everman, president of the association.
     The camp has been conducted annually for a number of years, and hundreds of children have been helped to health by the association, through proper diet and exercise.
     No child with tuberculosis is admitted, and all of the small guests are carefully examined by the clinic staff of doctors.
     Children selected for the camp are chose because of being frail or under weight, and thus, more susceptible to the disease, or who come from tubercular parents, but themselves do not have the disease.

Careful Examination.
     "The association's medical director," said Mr. Everman, "in addition to examining each child before admission, makes weekly examination of each child to see that proper health improvement is going on, and also to guard against any disease creeping into the camp that might spread, and the success secured by this care is proven by the fact that no children's disease of any kind has ever crept into the camp, notwithstanding the many hundreds of children that have been cared for, and all were returned to their homes with improved health and gain in weight, and, in addition to this, the association arranges for the children, free of all expense, to have tonsils and adenoids removed and necessary dental work done.
     The children are selected from families who could not bear the expense of paying for a summer outing for their children. Treatment of the children at the rest camp consists of proper diet and ample rest periods. Meals are carefully planned, largely following national government health department advice, which makes special recommendations as to diet for gain in health and weight and, in addition to the three regular meals served daily, they are given milk between meals, averaging over one quart, per child, per day.
     The children are taught cleanliness and general health rules.

Equipment of Camp.
     The camp is equipped with a large swimming pool, where the children enjoy their daily dip. The camp has a library, representing gifts of good friends, picture books, principally, and when they take their afternoon rest in bed, each is furnished with a book to attract their interest.
     The camp is equipped with a merry-go-round that will accommodate fifty children, turn-table, numerous swings, see-saws and other play equipment. Some good friend presented the camp, two or three years ago, with a moving picture machine, and the moving picture companies of Dallas have combined, for several years (and will do the same this year), to provide the camp with sets of pictures, free, so that a picture show can be given every other night at the camp.
     The camp is provided with an electric washing machine and steam dryer, and, as the little children at the camp are very limited as to wardrobe, their day clothes are washed every night, and their night clothes washed every day to add to their comfort.
     The camp is supplied with adequate toilet facilities, has its own sewage disposal plant, all necessary repairs have been made on the camp building, camp equipage being painted, ground thoroughly cleaned and Dr. Carrick, who recently, personally inspected the camp, certified that it is in splendid sanitary condition.
     There were more than 250 children cared for last year, and the association returned to their homes, 650 pounds more of children than they received.
     The camp will continue in operation during June, July, August and the first week in September, and the Dallas folks are earnestly urged to come out to the camp and visit the children there. It is planned to take care of a total of about 250 children this summer, averaging about seventy children at one time. The association is a member of the Dallas Community Chest, receiving its financial support from that body.