The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-08-07
How to Have summer Health In a Ctr.


If we were to Judge only by the mel.
titudes that rush from the cities to the
mountains and the seasides in the sum-
mer time, it would DO supposed that,
in this period of the year, health in q
city home is an impossibility. Yet we
are glad that it is not so, since there
are toiling thousands who can leave
only for a day at a time, and whose
home in the city must be as constant
in the summer rs in the winter.
More than all this, it is transpiring that
many of those who remain, and know
how to remain, maintxfn a good and
comfortable degree of health during
the whole year. It is now noticed by
physicians that typhoid and other fevers
prevail in families that have returned
to a city, after a summer absence, in
greater proportion than among the stay
at-home population. In the changes
that are made, there is often q breach
of the healthy regularity of home life,
and indulgences that do harm to bodily
vigor. Surely recreation Is good; but
the only wise ways of taking it do not
appe.tain to such a life. Where cir
cumstances prevent us from the enjoy
able change, how shall the city summer
life be rendered most thealthful and
PLEASANT
First of all, there is to be that n
forcement of general sanitary police,
in which the city authorities, as we'll as
the individual, must be active. You
must see to it that, early in spring,
proper sanitary regulations are carried
out. The garbage and ashes and all
accommodations of the household must
be thoroughly removed. SO that, at this
season, there is not only an extra
house cleaning, but yard and street
| cleaning. Then great car must be
taken, during the summer, when mat
ter so easily decomposes, to have daily
removal, SO that the air we breathe and
the water we drink may not be sub
| jected to rapid contamination. Where
this kind of cleanliness is insisted upon,
and very prompt complaint made to or
of the health Inspector, if there is de-
lay, the air of the city is kept in much
better condition.
Next, good attention must be given
to our foods. During the hot months,
meats, vegetables and fruits undergo
rapid change. Milk also sours easily,
and often is fed to small children, SO as
to become an irritant. Too often
children come to the common table at
too early an age, and are fed the va.
rious things provided. For older per
sons, oatmeal, rice, and fresh vegeta-
bles and fresh fruits, eaten in modera.
ton, are always good. 1t is very notice.
able how mothers who have . well.
ordered system, and have control over
their children, preserve them, while, in
families where proper care as to food is
not understood, the excessive evils OF
wrong supply, or of ~over-eating, are
now manifest. As q rule, meat is toe
largely consumed in hot weather.
Many q good meal can be made of cold
mush and milk, fried mush, or some Of
the prepared forms of cereal foods. AS
the chief tendency in summer is to
stomach and intestinal arrangements,
it is to be realized that these are often
excited by improper foods, or inordi.
nate eating, or eating a twrong periods,
and so there is excess and its results.
In summer it is generally well to
avoid sleeping in the lower rooms OF
the house. As the air is more likely to
contain organic matter, and as this in
clines to cling to surfaces and to remain
nearer the ground, it is wise TO choose
sleeping apartments in upper stories
This is well understood by those who
have to visit malarious countries in the
summer time.
The depressing power of heat is very
great upon most persons, and especial
~ upon children. Excessive play, OF
too much exposure to the suns rays OF
to heated pavemcnts, is always unwise
The habit of remaining indoors fol
two or three hours during the ~excessiv,
heat of the day is excellent. In our
variable climate, there is often need o
a change of dress during the day. SO a
to adapt ourselves to changing con
ditions of temperature. We are con
stantly impressed with what caution
and prudence will do for us in summe
time. Many a n is sick, because o
the indiscretion of a single meal, or o
an unwise exposure. 1t is not SO oftel
ignorance as -thoughtlessness. Russell
and others have shown what great prob
abilities of good health attach to cit,
life, if only there is proper adaptation
and a use of those facilities, which, il
some respects, cities afford better thai
the country.-N. Y. independent