Sunlight and health / by C.W. Saleeby.

  • Caleb Saleeby
Date:
[1923]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Sunlight and health / by C.W. Saleeby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    phosphorus in a baby’s blood in a fortnight; or cure rickets as rapidly and certainly and costlessly as Dr. Harriette Chick and her fellow-workers, sent from London to help and to learn from the hapless children of Vienna, have lately demonstrated ? Our houses, our hospitals—consider the wards of St. George’s Hospital at Hyde Park Corner, and contrast them, in the light of the following pages, with Hyde Park itself, unused for cure—our schools, our factories, our clothes, all these and more must be reconsidered as we emerge from the last—for surely it must be the last—of the Dark Ages into the light of day. For evidently the real meaning of Dr. R oilier’s work is not clinical but hygienic ; I praise it, here and everywhere, in order to end it, leaving him nothing to do but to write his memoirs. Meanwhile it is a serious question whether, in Britain , so long as we continue to make many of our children tuberculous, we should not send them to Switzerland, where they can be cured by the sun in a year or two, rather than treat them for many years until they die in any of the various dark places on which we rely at present, and some of which it has been my miserable experience recently to visit in search of more light. That question must be reiterated, at whatever cost of offence to vested and other interests. One kind of difficulty which the champions of the light in Britain must over¬ come may be illustrated by a single sentence from Dr. F. E. Wynne, Medical Officer of Health and Professor of Public Health in Sheffield, that smoke- cursed, rickets-and-tuberculosis-haunted survival of
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