The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1898-08-05
Precautions Against Cholera Iniantum.


State Board Of Health, writes To the
COURIER requesting, for the Board,
he publication Of the following ciI-
cuar. He says, also, that reports
Df physicians tell of the existence OF
much cholera infantum, uiarrhoea,
and other preventable bowel dis
orders in your county" Now, both
the county secretary of the Board OF
Health, and the town secretary say
this il not the tact, but that there Is
hardly any otthis class of disease in
Dubois county, and the town secre
tary says that Jasper Is the most
town Of its size in Indiana
in fact too distressingly hcalthiul
for the pockets of the doctors-that
the water generally is the purest,
the air the most salubrious and
health inspiring, and the surround
ings all together the most heavenly
and desirable to be found on earth
since the garden of Eden was abol-
ished, and allowed to 60 to briars.
But as some the COURIER numer
Gus county readers may be bene-
fitted thereby, we cheerf ully pub
lish the circular:
RECOMMENDATIONS or THE STATE
BOARD or HEALTH.
Summer complaint (cholera in-
fantum) is killing scores OF infants
in Indiana at this time. The re-
ports to the State Board Of Health
from physicians in all parts of the
State tell Of the awful slaughter.
At the present rate of mortality for
summer complaint, about one-twen-
tieth Of all the deaths for the entire
year must be credited to this dis.
ease.
CAUSE OF SUMMER COMPLAINT.
The trout le attends continued
high temperature. Excessive heat
long endured, profoundly affects the
nerves. Fretfulness (nervousness)
always precedes attacks of choleri
linfantum. Digestion is depressed
lby nervousness, and then, If thu
child happens to overeat or to b
fed unwholesome food, it quickly
develops the dread disease. The fer
ments which always exist every
where in everything, and which ar
unusally active in torrid weather
are only waiting for an opportunit,
ito multiply and elaborate thei
poisonous products, which caus'
cholera infantum, diarrhoea. dysen
terry, etc.
PRECAUTIONS.
: First. Keep the infant cleal
and cool by frequent bathing il
tepid water, and give it plenty o
cool boiled water to drink. Civ
considerable time and pains to this
for il probably will do away will
. the nece sity Of giving all of you
. time, plus a great deal Of anxiety
to the sick infant. If the infant i
fed at the breast, the mother shoul,
| take the very best care OF herself
) She, too. should keep clean, COO
and quiet. If the mother is wor
, RED, overhea'ed, nervous, ieverish
. or exhausted with work, her mill
is unfit food, and if given to tn
baby there will be two sick instea'
of one.
If the baby is fed artificially, b
sure first to use only plain bottle
with PAIN rubber nipple. keel
lit clean and sweet with scaldin
I water and ordinary baking soda
do not use feeding bottles with lon
rubber tubes unless you wish to in
+. vite indigestion, bowel trouble, an
perhaps death. The milk shoul
be from healthy COWS, collected wit
' scrupolous cleanliness, cooled,
possible, in ice water imm mediatel
e alter it is taken from the animal
and kept covered in cool place
Dirty cows, dirty barnyards, dirt
hands, dirty cellars and dirty retril
. orators kill more infants every sun
mer than any other cause Th
n battle cry against cholera infantuI
is CLEANLINESS, CLEANLIN
CLEANLINESS.
Infants need water to drink
{ much as adults. Give them waite
: out be sure to boil and cool it b
u forehand. Don't trust your wei
Especially if it is dug well, for te
y to one it is polluted Take Ii
htrouble to boil the water; the inte
est Oh the investment is very hig
Keep the baby in the open air
!, the shade, and let it wear flann
: bandage around the stomach.
= your child is suddenly seized wi
l. ldiarrhoea or frothy vomiting, st.
Tits milk at once and feed it on ra
= white OF egg, gelatine and meat
= uIchick.n broth; and do not give
io milk again until the diarrhOea h