THE SUN CURE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1925, Page 3

THE SUN CURE

HOSPITAL TREATMENT. AUCKLAND, Deeemebr 27. There are always more visitors than usual at tho Public Hospital during the Christmas season, and many of them have been much struck, during the days of glorious sunshine which preceded Christmas, with the large number of children who. with only tho scantiest of covering around their loins, are undergoing the sunshine cure under ideal conditions in the most sheltered parts of the ground. The children suffer from various ailments, and are making good progress towards recovery. Many of them look just like little Maoris.

Medical officers explain that when properly regulated, the direct rays of the sun upon the human body form, a most valuable aid to health. Not only children, hut adults who are suffering from nervous complaints, find . much benefit from sun bathing, and some remarkable cures have been made ill some forms of skin disease. It has also been claimed in some European countries that the tonic effect of sunbathing is soon very noticeable on hair, having a marked effect on its growth and richer colour. It was deplorable, one authority said, that people pulled down their blinds so much this sunshiny weather, and kept the sunlight out, for there was no greater enemy to disease than sunshine. What was being done at the Public Hospital with the sunshine treatment could he coupled with advantage in many homes when' facilities for sunbathing could lie got with the greatest privacy.