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15. Superannuation contributions 56 0 0
16. Provision of shelters 150 0 0
17. Beds and bedding for shelters 40 0 0
]8. Beds and bedding for patients 10 0 0
19. Post-Graduate Course 30 0 0
20. Refresher course for nurses 10 0 0
21. Solarium 855 0 0
22. Patients to Leysin, Switzerland 900 0 0
£5,506 0 0
LIGHT TREATMENT.
In the following report by Dr. D. M. Connan will be found
a full account of the new solarium. I need not say very much
about it except just to state generally that light treatment has
come to stay. We have only touched the fringe of its possibilities
, and what the future will bring forth it would be bold to
prophesy. There is one thing, however, I think may be said and
that is that it is going to be of very much more benefit to the
people of northern countries, where the natural sun is deficient,
than to the people from the climates of southern Europe and the
tropics who are much more accustomed to plentiful sunlight. It
has been found, for instance, that fair skinned Europeans benefit
much more by artificial sunlight in the treatment of wounds than
the dark skinned Turks of Asia Minor, and this, no doubt, will
apply generally.
Further developments probably will be in the direction of
allowing those domestic animals, useful to man, such as cows, to
benefit from the ultra-violet rays.
I need only restate that the Bermondsey solarium is the first
of its kind on any considerable scale in the country. Lamps
have been installed, of course, in many places, but the general
planning of the building and the methods used are quite original.
Dr. D. M. Connan's Report :—
"During the first six months of 1926 light treatment was
continued as before in the temporary Light Clinic in the Tuberculosis
Dispensary.