The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-10
Ucinel1 and Society.

, them physically? Do you make any effort to dfrcct their play and their work to the end of developing their lungs or making them strong physical ly? The physical development of the child is often very much neglected and only too often fond parents deny them selves many things in order to give their children every advantage of edu- cation, yet neglect their physical train ing; and ir the ''sear and. yellow leaf" of their lives--the time when their children should be pride and comfort | to them--they see their snlendid and cultured son or their beautiful and ac- complished daughter wither away and die from tuberculosis. This is a sad picture. but one that is frequently true v to life. and I beg you not to neglect 1 the physical training of your children 1 if you would not have this tragedy en- acted in your lives.
 The time to begin this great work of i developing child physically is the day l of his birth. Crying, in moderation. is heaithful exercise for a baby. and instead of dosing and overlooking children for crying, it should rather
 bc encouraged. It opens up their
 lungs, pnd thrSS>h the deep and in- | creased bieaf1ng incident to crying. \ carries oxygen to every cell in the body with each inspiration and elimi- mates effete products from .he tiood With expiration. Remember that ba- | bies need fresh air and sun light as | much as adults. Nurseries and sleep ing apartments of children should be
 on the sunny exposure of the home. and should be well ventilated. even | in the coldest weather. When the sun | Is shining, wrap them up and let them | stay in the open air and sun light as
 much as possible.
 Crawling in children should be dis I n Rn rnd fAs- .l.. l all floors and carpets soon become
 contaminated by the germs brought in
 from the street on shoes and skirts.
 and the child in crawling raises some
 dust which he inhales. Babies get l their hands soilcd on the floor and put their fingers in their mouths. and may thus infect themselves with tu- | berculosis. Dr. Priesich examined the fingers of tliirty-six crawling children
 and found the tubercle baccilli under l the nails of fourteen of them. Sta
 tistics show that moro children at the crawling age have tuberculosis than at | a later period.
 l Children are much more susceptible
 to tuberculosis than is g.Eera1ly sup-
 posed. It is certain that many chill | dren are infected with tuberculosis {; | that the majority of then recover; an.l
 that some die from the disease. There l fore. it is necessary to use every pre-
 caution to prevent our children from
 becoming infected.
 Digestive disturbances in children should be carefully looked after, be-
 cause, as I have stated, the infant in
 a low state of vitality can be easily l infected with the disease. Enlarge,i tonsils, adenoid growths in the pharyn and catarrhal diseases of the upper air passages are sometimes the
 starting point of tuberculosis in chill | lxAx, l. I The education that educates the
 minds, hearts and bodies of our chill
 dren will do more to stamp out tuher- culosis than any other agency. Regu-
 lar physical exercises, directed especial
 ly to the development of the lungs and | accessory muscles of respiration should
 be a part of the daily routine of school | duties, and daily lessons and talks on
 practical hygiene should be in the cur riculum of every school Children should be taught the hygiene of the i home; that fresh air and sunshine arc Gods greatest gifts to mankind; that | the germs of consumption die in a | few hours when exposed to sunlight The older children should be most l carefully instructed in the hygfeuic
 management of case of tuberculosis. They should be taught that right liv- 1 ing is the surest method of prevent
 ing disease; that health and happiness
 come from regularity of work. recre- ation. diet, and sleep; that a liberal
 quantity of all are required to keep them in health; so that their bodies
 cah withstand the invasion of the germs of tuberculosis.
 The isolation of those infected with tuberculosis would unquestionably Him. | it the disease in a great measure, but the difficulties of enforcing and car- l rying into effect in any way the iso- lation of the thousands of indiEent consumptives, in every State in the | Union, are so great as to make the suggestion impracticable and even inn possible; though something may be done on that line. The establishment of sanatoria for the isolation of the 1 tuberculosis sick should receive moro attention from philanthropists and the civil authorities. In Massachusetts,, New York and other States, they have
 been successfully conducted by the State for several years. Aside from the isolation feature of the sanitarium treatment for consumptives, the hy- gienic education that it gives the pa-