Children Need Sunlight

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 34, 7 March 1930, Page 22

Children Need Sunlight

ARTIFICIAL sunlight is being increasingly used throughout Great Britain not only for improving ‘and maintaining the health of children, but also in actually curing them of the many debilatory diseases, to which they are so liable, and which are due to lack of fresh air, wholesome srrroundings and inadequate diet. . Medical officers of health and. others with a wide experience of child welfare work realise that the human plant ean only bloom properly in a sunny aspect. During the early years of childhood, light is an essential factor in growth and development: and in this respect, artificial sunlight or irridia-

tion by ultra-violet rays is better than the natural and richer in vital radiation than even the pure, unclouded sunshine of the Alps. As a preventive of disease, a pol rerful stimulus to general health, and in particular to the defensive mechanism of the body to infection, sunlight treatment has obtained pre-eminence, and is further being looked to, to solve the problem of damage to health by dental decay.