PIT BOYS FOR THE ALPS.
TEST OF VIOLET SUN RAYS. - \ Five pit boys from the Sherwood Colliery, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, recently were taken on a holiday in the Alps. The object of the trip, organised by the New Health Society, the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, and the Sunlight League, was to test the health value of ultra violet light. If these boys thrive in the natural ultra violet light of the Alps the use of artificial ultra violet rays will be extended among pit boys working in mines all over Great Britain. The average age of the lads is 15, and they were most excited at their first visit to London and at the prospect of three weeks in a Swiss chalet at Gris Alp. Kiental. 6000 feet above sea leveL They were to bathe every morning in a mountain stream, to tramp from ten to 20 miles a day, and to eat honey, brown bread and butter.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 15
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