[Report 1932] / School Medical Officer of Health, Wakefield City.

Wakefield (England). City Council.

Date:: 1932

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Credit: [Report 1932] / School Medical Officer of Health, Wakefield City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The first was a patient with chronic osteomyelitis of 3 years’ duration before this treatment was commenced. He was treated for 19 months. He had multiple sinuses in the neck, arm, legs and chest. All were healed on discharge, fragments of bone having come from each. He gained 15 lbs. 6 ozs. in weight and grew 4J inches while under treatment. The second case was a child with an abscess adherent to the jaw, which had broken down and discharged repeatedly. It was treated for three months and healed up, the induration disappeared, and the skin was quite movable over the jaw on discharge. m There is little doubt that Artificial Sunlight is very useful in clearing up chronic inflammatory conditions. Debility. There are 15 mixed cases under this heading. Three of them also suffered from anaemia, and, as usual, failed to take the iron prescribed. All three put on weight remarkably well, but the anaemia was not affected in the slightest. Of the remaining 12, one had to stop on account of albuminuria, 6 were improved, but not to any remarkable extent. The other five, however, one can truthfully say, did benefit quite con¬ siderable. One of these was a child of three who was shaky on his legs, and miserable and thin after a bad attack of whooping cough. In 8 months he gained 6 lbs. 5 ozs., and was a lively, happy child. 2 others belonged to the thin, sallow, languid, but not anaemic type of rapidly growing child. Both did very well. One of them put on 5 lbs. 14 ozs. in 4 months and other 3 lbs. in the three months following. The other gained 4 lbs. in 8 months and was generally much better. The fourth case was a boy who had had an illness with cough and pain in the chest and had been labelled “pleurodynia.” He was debilitated and languid, and had no appetite. After two months’ treatment he had gained lbs. and felt perfectly fit again. The last of the five cases was a child who was very nervous and continually talked' in his sleep. After nine months he had gained lbs. and the habit had completely stopped. His general health also was much better. J. EELES.