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Artificial Sunlight Treatment.
Number of cases treated 78
Total number of attendances 1,305
Convalescent Home Treatment.
Children.
During the year 40 children, recommended by the Clinic
Medical Officers, were sent to Convalescent Homes by the Maternity
and Child Welfare Authority through the agency of the Invalid
Children's Aid Association.
The illnesses for which convalescence was recommended
were:—
Debility (12 cases).
Scarlet fever (1 case).
Whooping cough (3 cases).
Pneumonia (4 cases).
Bronchitis (5 cases).
Measles (7 cases).
Blepharitis (1 case).
Cough (1 case).
Pyelitis (1 case).
Otitis media (2 cases).
Asthma (1 case).
Rheumatic pericarditis (1 case).
Malnutrition (1 case).
Twenty-three of the 40 children were between the ages of two
and four years ; 8 were over four years ; and 9 were under
two years.
Nursing Mothers.
Four mothers were sent away for two weeks convalescence to
" Child Haven," Hutton, near Brentwood, after they had had
their babies.