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Of the School cases, 17 were boys and 13 girls; the maternity
and child, welfare cases, 24 boys and 22 girls, and the Tuberculosis
patients, 2 male and 2 female.
There is a tendency sometimes to exaggerate the therapeutic
importance of this form of treatment. All the cases referred to the
Clinic had been carefully selected as likely to benefit; of those
discharged, 37.8% after completion of treatment, were much
improved, 31.3% were improved, and 30.9% were not benefited.
These figures show that it is by no means a panacea, though under
expert supervision of dosage, exposure, etc., it is capable of assisting
natural forces to bring about improvement in bodily health, in
unskilled hands it is capable of causing bodily damage. Two types
of lamps were used: the Mercury Vapour and the Carbon Arc: the
former alone was used in 60 of the cases; the latter alone in 7
cases, and both lamps in 13 cases.
The use of artificial sunlight lamps in bathrooms is fraught
with considerable risk and their installation should only be made
under strict expert supervision.