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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    authorities at a large sanatorium for tuberculous children, mercilessly set on our bleak north-eastern coast, whither I was driven fourteen miles from a great northern port explicitly in order to see the sun-cure, and was told by the teacher in the school which is part of the institution that, when the sun shone, the children were sent into a neighbouring wood, by the doctors’ orders, lest the light should hurt their eyes ? No comment seems adequate but Schiller’s, “ Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.” I adhere to my oft-reiterated dictum in reference to Britain (contrasting, for instance, smoky London with smokeless New York, and smoky Sheffield with smokeless Essen), that the restoration of sunlight to our malurbanised millions, now blackened, bleached and blighted in slums and smoke, is the next great task of hygiene in our country.
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