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an inadequate diet are among the commonest causes of
ill-health and lowered resistance to infection, they become
more ready to exert their efforts in the right direction.
Considerably better knowledge of diet now exists among
the mothers attending this Clinic bhan was shown say five
years ago; for instance, nearly all mothers, except those
whose income is inadequate to maintain health, now give
their children fruit daily, and the allowance of meat, fish
and eggs given to young children is distinctly ibetter,
though much money is still wasted on meat extracts and
other substances of poor dietetic value. As regards infants,
the feeds of bottle-fed babies are more accurately measured
and fair regularity in feeding appears to be more usual.
The question of insufficient sleep is so closely bound up
with overcrowding that progress here has probably been
less, though much more might be achieved by the parents
if they realised its extreme importance.
An effort is being made to bring to the Clinic children
suspected of rheumatism, and the Health Visitors are on
the look-out for such children.
The most frequent type of case is still the child
"who is not getting on," and who very likely suffers from
frequent minor ailments; and for such cases the possibility
for the doctor of spending a good deal of time over one
child is an important factor in bringing about improvement.
In, a Considerable number nervous symptoms of various sorts,
such as restless sleep, night terrors, fits of temper and
unfounded fears, occupy a prominent place. The proportion
of cases with definite organic disease has been comparatively
small during the past year.

Number of consultations 429
Number of light treatments 147
No. of sessions 49
Average attendance per session v92
H. M. M. Mackay.
ARTIFICIAL LIGHT TREATMENT.
One is not surprised that Artificial Sunlight therapy
should have been made to run the gauntlet of scepticism.
When any form of therapy is widely introduced it may