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Artificial Light Clinic.
The Light Clinic is held at the Model Welfare Centre on four afternoons a week
and all cases are seen by the Assistant Medical Officer of Health once a fortnight.
The lamp in use is of the K.B.B. Mercury Vapour type. A description of the
technique employed was given in the last Annual Report.
The results obtained in cases attending during 1929 have been classified according
to the method which was employed in regard to the group of cases who attended
before that year and who were collected in the 1928 report. The earlier group of
cases contained a large number which did not come under one's personal supervision,
and it will be noted that the number of successes during the past year, in which
the results had possibly been considered more critically, do not compare favourably
with those reported in 1928. In the 1928 series it was considered that about one-half
of the cases treated derived some benefit, and in 1929 only one-third. Whether these