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see how necessary it is I am sure it could be done, and 
more work gone through than is now done by the same 
hands, because a brighter intellect and stronger body would 
be behind the hands. The noble bands of women who are 
now doing such excellent work in nursing the sick are a 
development of modern times; and could we not have a 
“Sunshine League,” who, by preventing sickness, 
would do even better work. I can see room for such a 
league to work everywhere; where the nursing sisters now 
save one life, our Sunshine League could save ten. Such 
a league would enrol scientists amongst their number 
to give more attention to the effects of ight on health 
than has ever yet been given, and advise accordingly ; 
it would carry such knowledge into the homes of the 
people, and get at least some efforts to profit by it. 
Then a branch here, living in our grand _ sunshine, 
might correspond with a branch in England, and, when 
invalids came from there, might meet them and help 
them to get back their health. If our Queen does not 
consider it infra dig. to cure a few cases of lupus with light. 
what would she not be prepared to do if we could show her 
that the 200,000 English consumptives would live, if 
brought into our sunshine, or the 150,000 cases of chronic 
bronchitis. And yet I am perfectly sure that a great part of 
the 60,000 consumptives who die annually in England 
could be saved, and nearly all the bronchitis could be cured, 
by our sunshine. But a Sunshine League could find plenty 
of work here, as many people live in dens which their 
owners should be ashamed of; others who live in decent 
houses never let the sun into them. Then there are workshops 
a disgrace to the employers; and waitresses and servants 
whose hoursof employment should be shortened. Bedrooms, 
in which we spend one-third of our lives, and where more 
consumption and such like diseases are caught than in all 
other places, are placed in outlandish, dark parts of the 
house, and children especially are put to sleep in abominable 
attics and out-of-the-way places. 
Fond mothers who keep their best rooms for drawing- 
rooms, and spare rooms for visitors, and put their children 
in these dark holes, make a most grievous mistake, and do 
their children a great injustice. Rooms where children are 
kept should have large windows, always uncovered when 
the sun, or even daylight, can be obtained. And invalids 
of all kinds should be kept in the sun and light as much 
as they can possibly stand. Arloing has proved that 
sunlight kills disease bacilli in proportion to its strength. 
