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Of the School cases, 15 were boys and 11 girls; the maternity
and child welfare cases, 33 boys and 19 girls, and the Tuberculosis
patients, 2 male and 6 female.
There has been a tendency in some quarters to exaggerate the
therapeutic importance of this form of treatment. All the cases
referred to the Clinic had been carefully selected as likely to benefit;
of those discharged, 38.2% after completion of treatment, were
much improved, 32.4% were improved, and 29.4% were not
benefited. These figures show that it is by no means a panacea,
though under expert supervision of dosage, exposure, etc., it is
capable of assisting natural forces to bring about improvement in
bodily health. In unskilled hands it is capable of causing bodily
damage. Two types of lamps were used: the Mercury Vapour and
the Carbon Arc: the former alone was used in 76 of the cases;
the latter alone in 6 cases, and both lamps in 4 cases.