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Artificial Sunlight Clinic.—The artificial sunlight clinic is held in part of
the Town Hall Infant Welfare Centre. The total number of patients treated during
the year, including 133 whose course of treatment was not completed at the end of
1933, was 467. The total number of treatments given was 9,612 : of these, 7,546
were by carbon arc, 1,254 by mercury vapour lamp, and 812 by radiant heat lamp.
The clinic is under the medical supervision of Dr. J. E. A. Lynham, who has
furnished the following report on the year's work:—
"The figures for the Sunlight Clinic show but little change from the previous
year. A smaller number was carried forward, but a larger number of new cases
was treated, the total being practically the same. The group under the heading
'Anæmia, Debility, etc.,' is still the largest, and is relatively considerably larger
than last year. The total number cured or improved has dropped, but this is
explained by an increase in those who ceased to attend and those who were under
treatment at the end of the year. It seems undeniable that the Clinic is of real
assistance in a district where social conditions are lowered by unemployment."