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IV. LIGHT TREATMENT, ELECTROTHERAPY
AND MASSAGE.
My Annual Report for 1936 contained a brief description,
together with a photograph and plans, of the Public Health
Centre in Grange Road. Included in this account there was a
description of the first floor or Solarium in which light treatment,
electro-therapy and massage are administered. A tabular statement
of the work done in the Solarium during the year is set out
below :—
Total Number of Attendances 51,125
Number of Individual Patients 1,666
Number of Treatments 82,143
Massage 5,902
Medical Electricity 755
Diathermy 3,740
Physical Exercises 2,931
Radiant Heat 13,409
Light 51,125
Ultra Violet Local 4,117
Mechanical Vibratory Massage 21
Q-Ray Pad 143
Number of Medical Examinations 3,723
Number of New Cases 1,355
Owing to the provision of additional forms of physical treatment
it is hardly possible to compare this table with the tables
set out in previous Annual Reports. The increase in the work
during 1937 was however so great, that towards the end of the
year it became necessary to report the circumstances to the
Public Health Committee, and the substance of the report which
was submitted to the Committee is here set out.
"The Public Health Centre has now been open to the public for
a full year, and during the course of that year I have on several
occasions drawn the attention of the Committee to the great