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Sun - Ray clinics
Posted by Brian on 7/5/2024, 10:47:17
The Sun-Ray clinics really come into their own in the late 1920s, they gave patients treatment fir TB,rickets, skin conditions etc. There was around 200 across the country with 2 maybe 3 North of the Tyne but I don't know if we had any on the south side of the river. Has anyone any information on the clinics in the South Tyneside area?
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Posted by Norman on 7/5/2024, 13:29:59, in reply to "Sun - Ray clinics"
A glimpse of sunshine always prompts the great British unveiling of skin.
With the beauty press talking about getting “summer ready” from February, the reckless and ignorant are ignoring the much-publicised skin cancer dangers of sunbeds to bake themselves with tanning lamps of ultraviolet radiation to produce a cosmetic tan.
It shocked me that sunbed use are as popular as ever. Not the old home sandwich-maker sunbeds of the ‘80s, but the stand-up booths in tanning salons.
It’s called the "Love Island effect."
Pale is pasty and brown is attractive, period, despite the risks of becoming one of the 2,300 who die every year from melanoma or one of the tens of thousands who have to have moles and chunks of skin cut out regularly because they have turned cancerous.
Why do these machines still exist? The dangers of exposure to the sun’s natural rays are well known.
How can people believe artificial ways to release melanin to change the colour of skin be any better?
Perhaps they believe faking it isn’t as dangerous and is a safer alternative like spray tans and creams? They might believe that because they don’t burn, it is a safer alternative to being outside.
Sunbeds work by creating the chemical melanin with tanning lamps that emit the same type of UV rays as the sun. They emit ultraviolet radiation to produce melanin, which tans the skin.
The charity Melanoma Focus is trying to reenergise the awareness campaign about the dangers, stressing sun bed tans are just as dangerous as lying out in the sun.
Unsurprisingly, 18-25-year-olds are the main users; this was the generation slathered in sun cream by their hyper-vigilant parents amid the national campaigns to stay safe in the sun. They must know the hazards.
They would see the aftermath of what sun rays did to their parents and grandparents’ generation and the rise in melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, risi8ng in the UK.
Yet sunbed use across the UK is alarmingly high. Like smoking, it’s a serious health concern.
It uses NHS resources that could be avoided by personal responsibility and action.
85pc of melanoma cases are caused by exposure to too much ultraviolet radiation.
Sunbed use might be well-regulated – the industry says if only sunshine was regulated as well – with trained staff and safety measures that sunbathing outside but regulations don’t eradicate risk.
It’s a part of the beauty business that needs a health warning and the dangers rammed home to young people.
Effects of the sun are horribly ageing and appeal to the vanity of not ending up with leathery crinkly skin.
I agree wholeheartedly Norman but these were medically ran establishments, I don't know how effective they were but some were operating well into the 1960’s.
What a fascinating photo, I wonder if those children were having treatment to prevent rickets, dom3 of the children’s legs look extremely thin, poor things, what an ordeal.
Liz, I’m sure you are right, as I’ve read about very poor children in the 1920/30’s been given this treatment. I really cant remember where I read it now. It could have been from a biography of someone remembering the poverty in London, many years ago. Also the big killer was TB. All families were terrified of it. Of course they was no cure in those days.
That photograph by Peter Cook reminded me of a similar one I saw many years ago of children having the same treatment in Russia, to combat the long winters with little to no sunshine, it was to build up their Vitamin 'D' deficiency.
Sun-Ray clinics
Posted by Margaret McD on 7/5/2024, 20:06:16, in reply to "Sun - Ray clinics"
I was born 1938 in William Street, Hebburn. When I was three we moved into Cuthbert Street. What is an earliest memory? I can remember being taken by my mother to the clinic on Argyle Street and having sun-ray treatment more than once. Apart from the black glasses and the heat I can remember the smell. I was not a heavy child by any means but I don't think I was ill. Maybe it was after a childhood illness like measles or whooping cough or chicken pox. I had all of those.
Re: Sun-Ray clinics
Posted by Thomas Buglass on 7/5/2024, 22:02:12, in reply to "Sun-Ray clinics"
I to can remember going to the clinic on Argyle Street in the 1950s for sun-ray treatment, I think it was for curvature of the spine.