Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-17
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SUMMER MoRTALTTY.-"A man never
sees good health again." once said
clever physician, when once he be
gins to dissect himself" In other
words, over care of diet, and smat,
tering of medical knowledge, keeps
many person in chronic trouble about
his health. The good old lady i'll the
comedy who thanked her maker that
she had no nerves-having been born
before nerves came in fashion, were
she living now, would express the same
gratitude that she had no digestive
apparatus. Once it was the nerves that
were always in fault; now it is the stom-
ach.
With the season of fruits and vegeta-
bles and the abundance of good, palata-
BILE and wholesome food, comes the
annual alarm ut summer ailments. I'M
questionably, many persons suffer i'll
convenience many children are sicF.
and not few die f; but it is not the
children's fault that they sicken and
die. It is the error of their guardians,
the over care, or no care ut all, and
one extreme is as bad as the other.
We do not mean so much care in re-
gard to food, as care to improve the
three best hygienic agents. air, water
and exercise. Give children well ven.
tilated sleeping rooms, take care tina!
they are kept clean, and let them alone
for exercise, and unless they are fed
with refuse food and too much of it,
nature will manage the rest. They
should not be kept so clean rs never tc
be permitted to soil their fingers,
They may roll in the sand if they
please, and will be better rather than
worse for it. But at night let them not
go to sleep in all the perspiration with
which the days work or romping has
filled the pores of their skins. We
carefully groom heated horse, and we
should at LEASH he careful Of Oil
dren and ourselves. Rub the children
down with Il sponge or damp towel,
ana be sure they wear 1T 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
was washed out of them, like faded
garment.
Attention to the functions of the skin
would preserve the life of many child
Happily, such attention is within the
reach of everybody. 1t requires only
patience, and the "rnle of not too much
water There few mothers who could
not, if they would only think SO, treat
their children to run, street car
ride, water trip once or twice a week
These precautions, with simple food
which an old-fashioned matron pro
nounced to be ga little of everything
wholesomethat is going;" are all the care
that is ordinarily requisite. The poor,
who are crowded in closed courts, can
not of course do all that is desirable,
but much more could be done than is
done. Ii parents. and especially fa
theirs, would deny themselves indul
gences. which are absolutely noxious as
well as expensive, they would have
more money and more leisure to devote
to the bills of mortality in cities would
not show the frighful preponderance OF
deaths under ten years of age" il
common sense did but wait on common
humanity.