SUN-BATHING ENTHUSIAST
ELECTRIC LIGHT AS SUBSTITUTE
BANISH DARKNESS AND BANISH / DISEASE."
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIQHT.)
(SIDNEY SUN CAKE.) (Received Ist April, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, 31st March.
Sir Herbert Barker, the prominent manipulative surgeon, is a strong advocate of sun-bathing as a means of prolonging life. He says, "How sad it is that the vast of London's poor are unable to enjoy sun-bathing. Why not bring the sun's magic to London?" He suggested suspending a number of enormous quartz lamps over the city from high towers, thus bathing /London'with a continual flood of artificial sunlight, of which the health-giving effect would be almost equal to that of the real sun's rays. He also urges that large swimming baths should be provided with water electrically heated. "Our hospitals are using artificial ultraviolet rays for various ailments,"'he said.' "We want them for the masses^ for the crowded slum dwellers, for everybody who cannot get a holiday away from England." He firmly believed that disease had its stronghold in the darkness of the narrow streets, crowded houses and underground rooms. "Banish darkness, and you banish disease."
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 78, 1 April 1924, Page 7
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181SUN-BATHING ENTHUSIAST Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 78, 1 April 1924, Page 7
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