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some knowledge of the present amount of equipment available,
and the number of competent experts, the whole position seems
ludicrous.
Not only has Dr. Connan made a close study of the subject,
but your Medical Officer of Health has taken steps to ascertain
the latest views, both on the Continent and in England, and
it is, therefore, a matter of great regret that neither the Ministry
of Health nor the London County Council will sanction our
work by a subsidy, and that all the pioneer operations in Bermondsey should fall entirely on the local rates. There are
too few means in this country of carrying on proper investigations
into the effect of ultra-violet radiation for an opportunity like
the present to be neglected. I trust, therefore, that before long
the work done in Bermondsey will receive the official recognition
that it is entitled to. I might say, also, that the work we have
done would never have been undertaken or carried out had we
not had a most sympathetic Council and Public Health Committee to back us up. The Borough is a poor one, but we have
not been stinted in any essentials in order to enable us to carry
out the undertaking.
While this is being written we have just opened our new
Solarium, a. full report of which will be reserved for the future.
As intimated in the Annual Report for 1924, we had hoped to
be able to give a full report on the subject this year, but, unfortunately,
we were unable to obtain a piece of land suitable for a
Solarium. The building of this, therefore, did not materialise
until Spring of the present year, when it was erected on land
behind the Tuberculosis Dispensary and the Maternity and Child
Welfare Centre at 108/110, Grange Road, S.E.I. This property
we have recently purchased to enable us to erect the necessary
building.
Dr. D. M. Connan's Report : —
In the Annual Report for 1924 a number of pages were
devoted to the consideration of the question of the Sun Cure for
Tuberculosis. The Medical Officer of Health recommended that
8 certain number of patients should be sent to Leysin for treat-