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Voluntary Centre. The only voluntary centre in the
Borough is held in the Hall of Holy Trinity Church, Beresford
Street, every Monday afternoon, and does excellent
work in a very difficult area of the Borough. It is staffed
by voluntary workers from St. Francis Mission, but the
Council supply one Health Visitor every session and an
Assistant Medical Officer every alternate week. The number
of children attending the centre during the year was 127, and
the total attendances, including mothers, was 877. The
Council do not make a grant towards the working of this
centre, but, as an approved centre, it receives the Ministry's
grant direct.
Artificial Sunlight Clinic. The clinic was opened in
1927. The total number of patients treated during the
year was 415, of whom 322 were new cases. The number of
treatments given was 10,074, being made up of 7,364 carbonarc,
1,703 mercury-vapour, and 1,007 radiant heat. The
clinic is in charge of Dr. J. E. A. Lynham, who has kindly
provided the following report on the work of the clinic during
the year.
"The Sunlight Clinic has been carried on during
the past year as heretofore, and the results obtained
appear to prove its usefulness in dealing with a number of
diseased conditions in children. In dosage, the same
principle has been followed beginning with a dose which
is decidedly short of an erythema dose and working up
gradually to the latter, the children attending two or
three times per week. It has been found, on the whole,
unsatisfactory to provoke any severe skin reactions, and
where these have been recorded it has been the practice
to discontinue treatment for a few days and begin again
with a shorter exposure.