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School Cases.
Four school cases were still attending the Clinic at the end
of the year. These were suffering from the following conditions,
viz.:—General Debility, 2; Pulmonary Catarrh, 1; Anaemia
and Debility, 1.
Maternity and Child Welfare Cases.
Seven Maternity and Child Welfare cases were still attending
the Clinic at the end of the year. These were suffering from the
following conditions, viz.:—Debility, 3; Rickets, 2; Bronchitis,
1; Cervical Adenitis, 1.

Of the School cases, 21 were boys and 15 girls; the Maternity
and Child Welfare cases, 15 boys and 19 girls; and the Tuberculosis
patients, 3 male and 2 female.
There is a tendency sometimes 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, 57.8% after completion of treatment, were much
improved, 11.4% were improved, and 30.8% 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 56 of the cases; the
latter alone in 11 cases, and both lamps in 8 cases.
The use of artificial sunlight lamps in bathrooms is fraught
with considerable risk and their installation should only be made
under strict expert supervision.