Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-07-14
THE DODGE CITY TIMES.
Written Tor the Times.
INFANT HYGIENE.


der one year the chief have been found BY
actual statistics TO be diarrbei, convuleions
pneumonia and bronchitis. During the sec.
ond year, diarrboi, pneumonia and bron-
chi,is e,ill claim a majority Of victimsi
while measles, whooping cough and scarls-
tina begin to ASSERT themselves. Diarrhes
snd oopvalsioDs il must be remembered are
comprehsnsive tsrms, being symptoms oi
many diseases rather than diseases them
selves, In the second. third, fourth and fifth
years, scsrlatiaa heads the list Of all dis
ese'. Whosping cough is most virulent d.
ring the first year, measles in the second,
and scarla,ina ia the third aud fourth years
of life. IL seems hardly strange then that
from forty to fifty children out of every one
hundred that are born should fail to COM
pleie their eth year, having TO run such q
gauntlet Of terrible diseases.
A careful study of these various diseases
affecting MANTLE life, enables US to group
them under i've general headings:
/. Diseases of digestive organs.
2 Dissss2s of the nervous system, Drain
spinal cord and nerves).
3. Diseases Of respiratory organs.
4 serofulous or conaumptive diseases.
8. Infectious and contagious diseases.
The fret group will a, present engage our
attention, AZ the scope OF these articles Ia to
treat of the care Of children during the sum-
mer month";; and diseases Of the digestive
tract, from the mouth 10 the rectum, most
undoubtedly by their frequency and fatality
sre the most important of affections Of early
life at this season.
As has already been stated, from thirty five
to fifty per cent of all deaths occurring in
Glitter are Of children under FIVE, and from
twenty 10 twenty five per cent are of child
rem under one year of age. OF this percent
age Of mortality it il sscertsined that one.
half Of the former and three-fourths Of the
later ere carsed by diarrhGal disorders.
Under this designation, ''diarrheal disor-
ani chrcnic), dysentery or bloody iiux (sim-
pie OF chronic), cholera infsntum, cholera
MOI bus, gss'Ii is (inG animation Of the s,om.
acl), eht,riti "a Illumination of bowels,
gartro euteriiis inf ,mmaiion Of stomach
and bowels, COLTS inflammation OF large
Intestine eniero-culit,- inflammation OF
small and large intssiinr-), msrasmus OF
isbes mesenierics, the latter being derange.
msnt Of bowels caused by scrofnlous or tn.
more properly belonging to the fourth class
Constipation may here be mentioned as a
most important and constant affection Of the
intestinal tract, an affection which though
simple in itself may be the precursor Of ma
ny grave maladies aud therefore entitled 10
special description.
The predispo-ing conditions and exciting
eau e, of and all the circumstances inhuen.
cins these variop. di orders viii now be Ia
ken up and considered under the following
classiicst o.: Age, locality, season, diet,
c.othiog, bathing. light and ventilation;
nursing, teelh'nf, weaving, sic ping and
growih.
AGE- Common exp Eience teaches that
diar .hpal and digestive disorders occur most
frequently during he first and second SUN
meTs The largest mortality occurs during
the Il st lev m, n,hs OF | te, gradually de-
oreasng an il the end OF the second year
when dentition Is fairly accomplished. Nurs
ins children, Including those artifcially
nursed, are alone subj,c; to cholera infAn-
ium, L. is doubtful if ary child has passed
through the i st ard second summers With.
o,,t mn attack in some degree of this summer