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LIGHT TREATMENT CENTRE.
Staff.—One Medical Officer, Head Masseuse and two
assistants.
Clinic.—Light room in Electrotherapeutic Department,
other rooms arranged for Radiant Heat, Massage and
Ionisation, &c.
Sessions.—Days and hours are arranged according to
number and type of patients.
Types of Lamps—(a) Percy Hall mercury vapour
Lamp, (b) Murray Levick type of infra-red lamp.
During the period of the year twenty-five children were
referred to the Light Treatment Centre and three hundred
and twenty-six exposures were given.
The following is a summary of the cases treated.
Number. Disease.
14 Debility.
27 Rickets.
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Milk (Mothers and Children) Orders, 1918-1919.—
Under these Orders the Council has continued to supply
milk to necessitous cases, each case being investigated,
especially as to the financial position, before a supply is
granted.
12,657 lbs. of dried milk and 858 quarts of raw milk and
54 tins of Nestle's were distributed during the year.
The number of applications for free milk has averaged
44 per week during the year. The total expenditure during
the year was approximately ,£820.
The amount of milk distributed during the year increased