The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-01

general diet commonly allowed should
be restricted. The ills of the second
summer should not be attributed to
teething and passively accepted as such.
Teething is simply source of irrita-
ton that impairs the vitality and rem
ders great care necessary. The food
given to such an infant should be most
simple and easily digested.
THE STAPLE DIET.
Eggs should be given once day soft
boiled or poached, milk sterilized or
boiled and bread and crackers. To this
may be added light milk buildings,
boiled rice and occasionally a little rare
meat. Fruit should be given very
sparingly and only in a perfectly fresh
and ripe condition. If after all the
above precautions are observed there
should occur the slightest signs of indi-
gestion in an infant, a physician should
be consulted. Under no circumstances
attempt to check diarrhoea by astring-
ents, etc.
THE SIMPLE DIARRHOEA
is either the result of bacteria, or germs
that cause it to be so deadly when neg
lected, or it affords favorable conditions
for their Judgment and action and
should therefore be corrected without
delay What otherwise might have
proven fatal attack may be arrested
in its incipiency. and if not then ar
rested all the measures within the
power of physicians are usually futile.
Last, but no less important among pre-
ventive measures is
CLEANLINESS.
Not only do unsanitary conditions i'm
pair the child's resistance to the dis
ease, but they are the direct and per-
haps usual cause of it, by furnishing
infection to the milk which is already
absorbent of impurities. 1t is common
observation that cholera infantum pre-
walls chiefly in families who live in
more or less filthy manner, disregarding
the rules of ventilation, personal clean
illness and sanitation. This is because
of the increasing liability of the milk
to become infected. Certainly cleanli-
ness cannot be objected to on the
ground of hardship. 1t is within the
power of all to scrub their houses and
their bodies and remove the impurities
that breed their childrens destruction.
For the sake of the children they
should chose to be on the side of safety,
even though they fail to trace the con-
nection between filth and disease and
have a grounded superstition that
Providence alone is responsible for their
physical ills.
A WORD TO DAIRYMEN.
In closing, attention may be called
to the fact that every effort is being
made by the health department, warm
~ supported by the sanitary commit
tee, to secure a pure milk supply. 1t
is manifestly most necessary that milk,
being the sole reliance for infant feed
ing, should be pure and wholesome to
start with; that it should be obtained
from healthy cows, properly fed and
MIXED by clean help; that the recep-
tacles for it should be kept clean and
general sanitary conditions maintained,
and that it should be furnished undi-
luted and fresh. All this requires con-
slant supervision, the expense of which
should be betrayed by a license fee
from the dairyman, for whose protec-
ton as well as that of the public the
inspection is needed. This action has
been opposed by the dairymen, but it
is the purpose of the authorities to be
firm in securing its adoption and en-
forcement
A vigorous public sentiment should
uphold the latter in their determina-
ton. T. B. BEATTY.