THE SUN-BATHING CURE

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1930, Page 8

THE SUN-BATHING CURE

MEDICAL MAN SCEPTICAL. AUCKLAND, June 3. Sun-bathing as a. cure for illness is not looked on so favourably in England as it was a few years ago, according to Dr A. Knight, who returned to Auckland by the Mnunganui after a nine i months’ trip abroad. Indeed, the view, ' was held by some doctors that sunj bathing for sick people could be really dangerous. ‘The difficulty is one of regulation,” Dr Knight said. “Where cures have been affected in sanatoriums the view is now held that they are due more to fresh air than to sun-bathing. Of course, it is admitted that the sun helps, but owing to the fact that it can be regulated treatment by artificial sunlight seems to be replacing open-air sun-bathing.” More attention was being paid to infantile and maternal welfare work in England, Dr Knight, continued. The Queen Charlotte Maternity Hospital in T fan don was being consridera bly improved, and medical students Were receiving a much more thorough training for maternity cases. A recent development which was received, the praise of medical men was the use of a-system known as conservative cooking. It was being employed in many of the hospitals, and its use was also being extended to private homes. The system provided for the cooking of all foodstuffs under steam pressure. r ine cooking was done in about a quarter of the time taken in ordinary footing, and the foodstuffs neither gained nor lost moisture. The food also retained all the necessary salts which were frequently lost in ordinary cooking.