LIFE-GIVING SUN

Evening Star, Issue 19385, 20 October 1926, Page 11

LIFE-GIVING SUN

“ Don’t coddle your children up. Lot them have plenty of fresh air ami sunshine. Let them go out on the beaches and in open spaces. there arc no more resources in any part of the world than there are hero for the health of the children. _ Let them get the fresh air and sunshine. Then there will be no disease, and our hospitals will be practically empty. These remarks were made by bir n • Triiby King, Director of Child Welfare, during the course of his lecture on “ The Sun Cure ” before a crowded and interested audience at Auckland on Friday. At the outset Sir _ Triiby said the object of science was simplification. The application of sunlight, or ultra-violet rays, was the very essence of life, and yet its study was of a most recent date. After having made a few remarks on the sun’s relation to life on this earth, Sir Truby King told his listeners that everything on earth was made by the sun. There was no more potent action of the sun and the ultra-violet rays than in strengthening the cells of the human body against poisonous microbes. There wars no reason why people should not be healthy in a city, if the rules of good living were observed and plenty of exercise were taken, together with quantifies of food in keeping with the amount of exercise indulged in.