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Mon 03 Mar 2003Lifelines
Sunny daze: Warm sunny weather drives up the numbers of children requiring emergency care, according to a new study.
The research, carried out between May and June last year at the accident-and-emergency department of the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, in Scotland, found the number of patients jumped by 30 per cent between April and September, regardless of whether it was a weekday or a weekend, a bank holiday or the long summer break.
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