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Artificial Sunlight Treatment.
Dr.E. M. Layman, the Medical Officer in charge of Artificial Sunlight
Treatment, has submitted the following interesting report:-
I have pleasure in submitting my report on the Light Clinics for 1932.
I reports on 396 children, the remaining few having attended five or
six times at most. I could not pronounce on the effect of the treatment
without longer observation on these'.

Rickets.—Eight were cases of muscular rickets, which responds
extremely well to treatment. The rest were skeletal or mixed forms, of
various degree of severity, including a few cases of badly deformed bowed
legs. Of the 63, 51 successes, 7 were moderate successes, 5 were
poor attenders.
Rickets call for much patience on the part of the mothers, as the
course usually must be a long one and each treatment with U.V.R. is
preceded by exposure to red light. Results (in cases of bowing of legs,
for example) are so encouraging that most of the mothers in this group
have persevered admirably in devoting the necessary time. I am greatly
the results in the Rickets group, both as to the bony and
muscular systems and as to the improvement in general health of the
2 Disturbed Dentition.—A group only second in importance to
Rickets. Various disorders are included, some children arriving for
treatment in a very low state of health. Nervous excitability, exhaustion
from broken sleep, catarrh and complete loss of appetite are common and
often occur simultaneously. I find U .V .R. of great value during morbid
teething and markedly so for its sedative effect on the restless wakeful
children.