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Children's health, the nation's wealth : a history of children's health camps / Margaret Tennant.
- Title
- Children's health, the nation's wealth : a history of children's health camps / Margaret Tennant.
- Author
- Tennant, Margaret.
- Publication
- Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HV1415.5 .T46 1994x | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch.
- Description
- 295 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In 1922 the Wangangui Chronicle reported that a Turakina farm was "fattening more valuable stock than it has ever fattened before in its pastoral records". The "stock" comprised delicate and supposedly malnourished children who, since 1919, had been sent to summer health camps run by the formidable Dr Elizabeth Gunn. The history of children's health camps provides a fascinating study of attitudes and policies relating to childhood in New Zealand. [This book] charts the changes in the social construction of health and childhood. Extensively illustrated and enlivened by personalities and anecdotes, it contains a valuable case study of the relationship between the state and a voluntary movement over eight decades. Moving from the broad sweep of policy concerns to the day-to-day experiences of health camp children, it makes an important contribution to the history of New Zealand childhood. [This book] will appeal to all with an interest in the development of health and social policies during the twentieth century, as well as the many New Zealanders who participated in the health camps."--Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Published in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-290) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Making of a movement (Health minds & healthy bodies -- children, health & camping ; Fattening human stock -- Elizabeth Gunn & New Zealand's first health camps ; Official camps & charity stamps ; Health cranks & heliotherapists -- the volunteer surge) -- Rise of the permanent health camp (Investments in national health -- King George V Memorial Health Camps ; Sunny days, sunny ways -- children in the permanent camps ; Health camp for grown-ups -- staffing issues ; New challenges) -- Response & re-evaluation (From matrons to managers -- health camps in a corporate age).
- ISBN
- 0908912684
- OCLC
- 34080793
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library