The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1925. VALUE OF SUNLIGHT

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1925, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1925. VALUE OF SUNLIGHT

Wiin.:: the la t is geiicralH accepted thai sunshine is goo-1 for the human animal, the use of sunshine, like that oi any other aid to health, lias to he tempered with judgment. Step by Step radiologists ale dissecting mil for 11 the good t rmn the had solar rays, end arriving at increasing precision ill i lie a] plication of radiology in treatment of disease. A conference of radiologists recently sitting in I-oii-dm lias given the public a (banco of catching 11 j> with recent progress. Pro-fe-sor 1 conned Hill, in bis address, stated that the ultra violent rays in sunlight which have specially curative (die ts, are screened oil’ from the body by .clothes, except thin zephyr or open mesh material in a single layer. Artificial silk, a nit rose of avetvl cellulose, uus more permeable than natural ■dlk. a protein. A z.eplivr of artificial silk "as the least obstructive, if a garment must 1.-e worn for sun bathing. but even a zephyr screened off more than bO per cent, of the rays. People must lie warned against long exposure of the whole body or largo areas of it unused to sun bathing to tin powerful summer sun. Sunburn was unwise for the chronic phthisical patient, and dangerous for anyone in

n active febrile state of disease. Heliotherapy fur phthisical patients or fur surgical tuberculosis and other conditions where the general health required tonin'; uj> should he given under coo! conditions. Hot sun boxes end sunlight treatment under glass in hot-houses was wrong. People should not he overheated and exhausted, hut stimulated and happy by cool air and sunshine fltra violet rays came from sky-shine as well as from direct sunshine. and the former was the greater source, particularly when the sun was low in the heavens. Patients with delieate skins eould be exposed under a dise so that they got the rays from the sky-shine and not from the sun directly After declaring that the British smoke-laden, sunless climate required artificial means of supplying it. and advocating its installation in schools as I icing as necessary as bath? In went i'ii to say that the lowered resistance of citizens to cancer might, in la: t. have to do with want of sunlight. and wo should therefore secure ourselves against this deficiency. Professor Sir Win. Bragg, national X-ray 1 nit Committee and his fcllow-rnem-•■er' are to elect representatives to -it en an internationad committee to consider the establishment of an X-rar standard on intensity and an X-rn'* unit The British X-ray Cnit Committee. formed in IP2B. was rootiesteO to communicate with the radiological and physical -societies of the principal countries of the world, asking them to nominate representatives on the international commrttee.