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Canned sunshine—glows vigour into young bodies in the winter.
Here the operation is only the start of a long voyage of treatment—the push from
the shore which gives the boat a start—but it is the long patient pull which gets the
vessel to the opposite shore. The operation may be completed but unless the
patient follows his course of massage, exercises, special heat or electrical treatment,
whichever it may be, then the surgeon might just as well have saved his time, because
the result will not be satisfactory.
If a person is operated upon in a great London Hospital, the chances are that
the long journey to and from Barking will discourage him from completing this allimportant
after-care. It was this consideration which led you to decide that the
proper solution was to bring the treatment to the patient. This service was started
as long ago as 1925. Not only does it serve the children under 5 years and the
children 0 school age, but it is available to all Barking residents on the recommendations
of their private doctors.
Since the early days the equipment and facilities of this service have grown and
today you have a large ultra-violet light lamp for mass artificial sunlight treatment,
an infra-red treatment lamp, various electrical apparatus for special uses and a
short wave machine which has recently been installed at considerable expense and
which is proving of great use in those cases where the doctor requires heat applied
below the surface of the skin.
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