Sunlight and health / by C.W. Saleeby.

  • Caleb Saleeby
Date:
[1923]
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Credit: Sunlight and health / by C.W. Saleeby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nor any one else used or studied sunlight in this country. Paying a first visit to New York in 1919, I was first astonished at the rule under which the train that took me thither from Halifax had to wait, many miles outside the city, whilst electric locomotion was substituted for the coal-smoke-producing engine, the nearer approach of which was forbidden by the sanitary regulations of the metropolis. Less than an hour later I was again astonished at the smokeless, sunlit cleanliness of the great city, by way of contrast to London, that “suburb of Hell,” as John Evelyn called it centuries ago. Leaving the city for home and seeing the sun set clear behind the astonishingly clear fagade of its skyscrapers, I remembered that we were to build new houses in England, and that here was a possible part-answer to the devastating old argument which had faced me so often in so many years—that we could not afford to reconstruct our old houses so as to make them smokeless in habitation. At least we could start aright with our new ones. Since that voyage I have devoted nearly all my time to a continuous inquiry into the relations of sunlight to health and disease, and continued public demand for action, curative and preventive, according to the results of such inquiry. In 1921, in my volume “ The Eugenic Prospect,” * I stated the case as forcibly and completely as I then could, and there is no need to go over that ground again. * London, Fisher Unwin & Co. ; New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. See Part II., “ Let There Be Light.”
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