SUNSHINE CURE

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 79, 28 December 1925, Page 6

SUNSHINE CURE

SOME REMARKABLE RESULTS CLAIMED MOST VALUABLE AID TO HEALTH KEEP THE BLINDS By Telegbaph— special Correspondent. Auckland, December 26. There are always more visitors than usual at the Public Hospital during the Christinas season, and many of them have been much struck, during the days of glorious sunshine which nreceded Christnias, with the large number of children who, with only the scantiest of covering around their loins, are undergoing the sunshine cure, under ideal conditions in the most sheltered parts of the grounds. The children suffer from various ailments and are making good progress towards recovery. Many of them look just like little Maoris. . The medical officers explain that, when properyv regulated, the direct rays of the sun upon the human body form a most valuable aid to health and act like a tonic to the physical and mental conditions of the system. Not only children, but adults who are suffering from nervous complaints, find much benefit from sun bathing, and some remarkable cures have been made in some forms of skin disease. It has also been claimed in some European countries that the tonic effect of sun bathing is soon very noticeable on the hair, having a marked effect on its growth and richer colour. It was deploiable, 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 sunshine treatment could be copied with advantage in many homes, where facilities for sun bathing could be got with the greatest privacy. On a fine day any visitors can see the children having their sun baths near the Princess Mary Wards.