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Bermondsey 1925

Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1925

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11. Printing and stationery5500
12. Laundry2000
13. National Insurance Act550
14. Workmen's compensation500
15. Superannuation contributions4600
16. Provisional shelters15000
17. Beds and bedding for shelters3800
18 Beds and bedding1000
19. Post-Graduate Course3000
20. Solarium45000
21. Patients to Leysin, Switzerland90000
£483150

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