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Description: | 29th July 1927.
A young boy demonstates the benefit of the Alpine Sun Baths at the City Baths, Cookridge Street. These were designed by Cuthbert Brodrick and also known as the Oriental and General baths. The boy wears regulation Leeds City Baths bathing trunks and protective eye goggles. These goggles are also worn by the Lord and Lady Mayoress, Alderman Hugh Lupton and his wife. Ella to protect their eyes from the reflective rays of the two enormous sun lamps. Theraputic sunbathing or 'Sun cure' was a widely prescribed medical treatment for such diverse conditions as ricketts, tuberculosis, cholera, viral pneumonia, bronchial asthma, gout, jaundice and severe wounds. The treatment of light therapy became less prescribed after the first antibiotics were developed in 1938. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | City Baths Lord Mayor central baths oriental baths Alpine Sun Baths Cookridge Street Lady Mayoress | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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