Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-07-23
SUMMER MORTALITY.

ga man never sees good neai'u
again." once said . clever physician
"when once he begins to dis'ecs him.
SELF" In other words, over care OF
diet, and a %smastering of medical
knowledge, keeps many a person in
chronic trouble about his health. Tns
good old lady in tho comedy, VINO
thanked her Maker that she had no
uerves-hariug been born before nerves
came in fashieu-were she living now,
would express the same gratitude that
she had no digestive apparatus. once
i. was the nerves that were always IN
fault; now it 10 the stomach.
With the season of fruits and Vegeta-
bles, and the abundance OF good,
palatabls aud wholesome food, comes
the annual alarm at summer ailments.
Unqusstionably, many persons suter
Inconvenience; many children are sick,
and not . few die; but it is not the chill
dren's fault that they sicken and die.
It is the error Of their guardians, the
over.care or no care at all; and one
extreme is as bad as the other. We DO
not mean so much care in regard TO
food, as care to improve the three best
bygienic agents-air, water and eIer-
else. Give children we'll ventilated
sleeping rooms; take care that thsy::ars
kept clean, aud let them alone for exer-
else; and unless they are fed with
refuse food, aud too much Of it, nature
will manage the rest. They should not
be kept 80 clean az never to be permit.
ted to soil their fingers. They may roll
in the sand IL they please. and will be
better rather than worse for it. But al
night let them not 60 10 SLEEP
in all the Precipitation with which
the days work or romping has
filled the pores Of their skins
We carefully groom q heated horse, and
should be at least as careful Of our
children and ourselves. Rub the
children down with a sponge or a damp
towel, aud be ure they wear at night
nothing that has done duty through the
day. Let the same care be taken in the
morning, and let their clothing be
loose and comfortable. They need not
be plunged too often into bath tubs.
Man is not an amphibious animal,
though many nurses seem to think so
and many Of the pale children Of
wealthy parents look as if all the color
were washed out Of them, like q faded
garment.
Attention to the functions of the
skin would preserve the life of many o
child. Happily, such attention is
within the reach of everybody. It
requires only patience, and the Z" rule
Of not too much water. There are
few mothers who could not, if they
would only think so, treat their chill
dren to a run down to the Carson,
up the sides Of Mount Davidson, over
to washoe Lake, or some other place,
in small picnic parties, once a
week or twice o month. These
precautions, with simple food-which
IN old fashioned matron pronounced to
be ga little of everything wholesome
that is going "-are all the care that 10
ordinarily requisite. If parents, and
especially fathers, would deny them
selves i~ndulgencies, which are abso-
lutely ~noxious as well as expensive,
they would have moro money and more
leisure to devote to their families, and
the bills of mortality would not show
the frightful pre~ponderance of deaths
under ten years Of age" II common
sense did but wait on common human