SUN BATHING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 6

SUN BATHING.

BENEFITS RECEIVED

AUCKLAND, Dec. 26. There are always more visitors than usual at the public hospital during the Christmas season, and many of them have been much struck, during tho days of glorious sunshine which preceded Christmas, with tho large number of children who, with only the scantiest of covering around their loins, are undergoing the sunshine euro under ideal conditions in the most sheltered parts of tho grounds. The children suffer from various ailment/ and are making good progress towardr recovery. Many of them look jusf like littlo Maoris.

The medical officers explain that, when properly regulated, the direct rays of the sun on the human body form a most- valuable aid to health' and act like a tonic to tho 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 cul-es liavo been mad< in some forms of skin disease. It hat 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 iti growth and richer colour. ■ It was deplorable, one authoritj said, that people pulled down their blinds so much this sunshiny weathei 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 copiec with advantage in many homes, where facilities for sun bathing could be obtained with the greatest privacy. On a fine day any visitors can see the children having their sun baths near the Princess Mary ward.