ARTIFICIAL LIGHT.
EFFECTS ON SCHOOL CHILDREN. The editor of the medical journal The Practitioner criticises the) London Medical Research Council for its report on light treatment, in which it was stated that effects of artificial light on. school children were wholly negative, and that exercise in the fresh air was greatly to be preferred. He says that the council, in publishing such a report without more investigation than appears to have' been made, must fail to hold the confidence of the profession and the public. He points out that a certain type of lamp was used on a group of school children, and it. was apparently expected that all would respond, without reference of their varying capacity to absorb light,- or to the suitability of the type of lamp, or to whether the individuals needed treatment, whereas it is well known that persons not requiring treatment can positively be made ill by it. , ■>.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 112, 11 April 1929, Page 4
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153ARTIFICIAL LIGHT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 112, 11 April 1929, Page 4
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