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(b) Bronchitis where there is a history of parents suffering from chronic
bronchitis.
These cases require long treatment and while under treatment are free, but
relapse the next winter unless treated.
(c) Asthma. Breathing markedly better and attacks less severe.
Belayed development.
Where cause is unknown, but where there is no evidence of mental deficiency.
Seven of these cases did very well, the remainder did indifferently.
Underweight.
Of the 30 children who were sent up and were underweight on admission, it
was found that those children improved in weight if they attended regularly. All
had had Cod Liver Oil and Malt, Vitmar and Virol, and had failed to reach the
normal weight until Sunlight treatment was given.
This improvement in weight, which has been carefully checked, is one of the
most outstanding features of the treatment when it is correctly given. One
interesting point is that the older children (above two years) gain more in
proportion than the younger.
Nervous Instability.
Children of this type improve probably because of the improvement in
sleeping, one of the universal features of the treatment.
Children who have attended regularly have almost without exception benefitted
considerably; several cases have changed almost beyond recognition. The unsuccessful cases
are those whose mothers have tired after two or three weeks and have attended irregularly;
in most of these cases it is found that the children have attended the Welfare Centres irregularly
and have been in other ways unsatisfactory— unfortunately, in these cases, too often the
treatment has been blamed for slow improvement.
During the year there has been a decrease in attendance on the previous year, although
the attendance numbers equal 1926, but certain factors must be taken into consideration.
(a) Measles epidemic of Spring 1928.
(b) The fine Summer of 1928 resulted in healthier children in the Autumn and
early W inter.
(c) During the Summer months when the Clinic is closed the Centres send their
children to other Clinics now available.
(d) 1928 is the first year where the numbers were limited by the Ministry of
Health.
It is the considered opinion of the Staff, from constant observations and intimacy with
the mothers, that Sunlight is an invaluable addition to ordinary forms of treatment and there
is at present no form of treatment to take its place.
The Borough Council's Dental Clinic, 40, Argyle Square.
At this clinic dental treatment is provided, under the Maternity and Child Welfare
Scheme, for nursing or expectant mothers and children under five years of age who are in
attendance at the various Welfare Centres.
Consultations are held every Monday and Wednesday in the afternoon, and on alternate
Fridays in the morning.