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(2) The Nursing Staff employed in connection with the Artificial Light Therapy consists
of:—
Sybil Miriam Smith—Fully trained nurse, London Hospital, 4 years ; 3 months in
the Light Department of the London Hospital giving treatments by means of the Finsen
and Mercury Lamps ; conjoint certificate, Chartered Society of Massage and Medical
Gymnastics ; Medical Electricity Certificate, Chartered Society of Massage and Medical
Gymnastics ; C.M.B. Certificate ; Health Visitors' Certificate, Royal Sanitary Institute.
Miss Smith has been doing the Artificial Sunlight work since the clinic opened on the
16th November, 1925.
Elizabeth Nullis—Fully trained nurse, City of London Infirmary ; C.M.B. Certificate ;
Health Visitors' Certificate, Royal Sanitary Institute ; 6 weeks' course in Ultra-Violet
Therapy at British Humane Association, Humanity House, 11, Tufton Street, S.W. 1.
(Acts in Nurse Smith's absence.)
(3) The type of lamp used is a Flaming Carbon Arc of Siebe & Gorman working at 30 amps.
(4) The current used is direct. The voltage from the main is 240, but this is reduced by means
of a resistance to 95 at the terminals of the lamp.
The lamp hangs in the middle of a small room, round it is arranged a quadrangular barrier
which keeps the patients at a proper distance. About 10 patients can be treated simultaneously.
Owing to the confined space the atmosphere is liable to become oppressive, but in order to counteract
this tendency an ozoniser has been installed which works satisfactorily.