Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1925
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11. Printing and stationery | 55 | 0 | 0 |
12. Laundry | 20 | 0 | 0 |
13. National Insurance Act | 5 | 5 | 0 |
14. Workmen's compensation | 5 | 0 | 0 |
15. Superannuation contributions | 46 | 0 | 0 |
16. Provisional shelters | 150 | 0 | 0 |
17. Beds and bedding for shelters | 38 | 0 | 0 |
18 Beds and bedding | 10 | 0 | 0 |
19. Post-Graduate Course | 30 | 0 | 0 |
20. Solarium | 450 | 0 | 0 |
21. Patients to Leysin, Switzerland | 900 | 0 | 0 |
£4831 | 5 | 0 |
LIGHT TREATMENT.
The following report has been written for this Annual
Report by Dr. D. M. Connan, Deputy Medical Officer of Health
and Clinical Tuberculosis Officer. Dr. Connan is responsible for
the treatment by ultra-violet radiation, and has been putting
the knowledge which he has acquired, not only by reading, but
by visits to important centres, both abroad and in England,
where sunlight treatment is carried out, to practical effect. As
will be seen from the report, his work has been done under great
difficulties, and with very poor equipment, but the record of
the cases treated during the last 18 months has been invaluable,
and the report which he has given stamps Dr. Connan as a
medical man who has not only early appreciated the value of
the sunlight treatment, but is capable of carrying it out in a
thoroughly efficient and scientific manner. There is a great
future before ultra-violet radiation, both from natural and
artificial sources, and I am in grave doubt whether the possible
developments are fully realised or envisaged by those in
authority. Last year the London County Council set aside a
sum of about £2,000 for the sunlight treatment of patients for
the whole of London. This is to be given in the form of
subsidies to some eight or ten hospitals. To those of us who
know the use of this treatment, and the need for it, and have