The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-07-28
Precautions Against ChOIer
Infantum.
Cholera
Recommendation Of The State Board O.
Health


fants in Indiana every year IN
the warm months the reports To
the State Board of Health from
physicians In all parts of the
State tell of the awful slaughter.
About one-tWentieth of all the
deaths Tor the entire year must
be credited 10 diarrhoeal trouble.
CAUSE OF SUMMER COMPLAINT.
The trouble attends continued
high temperature. Excessive
heat, long endured, profoudly
affects the nerves. Perfumes
nervousness always precedes
attacks of cholera infantum. Di-
gestion is depressed by nervous
ness, and then if the child hap
pens TO Overeat on TO be fed ur-
wholesome food. ii quickly
develops the dread disease. The
ferments microbe) which always
exist everywhere i'm everything,
and which are unusually active
in hot weather, only wait for an
opportunityto multiply and elabo-
rate their poisonous products.
which cause cholera infantum.
diaTrhoea. dysentery. etc.
PRECAUTIONS.
First. Keep the infant clean
and cool by frequent bathing in.
tepid water. and give il plenty
of cool boiled water to drink.
Give considerable time and pains
to this, for it will probably will.
do away with the necessity of
giving all of your time. plus al
great deal Of anxiety. to the sick
infant. All too frequently in
fants do not have enough water
to drink and cry and are sick be-
cause Of thirst. If the infant isl
fed at the breast. the mother
should take the very best care of
herself. She. too, should keep
clean, cool and quiet. If the
mother is worried. oyerheated.
nervous, feverish. or exhausted
with work, her milk is unfit food,
and if given to the baby there
viii be two sick instead of one.
If the baby is fed artifciallyI
be sure first TO use only a plain
bottle with a plain rubber nipple.
Keep it clean and sweet with
scalding water and ordinary bak-I
ing soda. Do not use feeding
bottles with long rubber tubes
unless you wish to invite indiges-
ton. bowel trouble. and perhaps.
death. The milk should be from
healthy COWS. collected with
scrupulous cleanliness, cooled. if
possible in ice water Immediately
after it is taken from the animal,
and kept covered in cool place
Dirty COWS, dirty barnyards.
dirty hands. dirty cellars and.
dirty refrigerators kill more in
fants every summer than any
other cause. The battle cry
against cholera infantum is clean
Illness, cleanliness, cleanliness.
Infants need water to drink as
much as adults. Give them
water, but be sure to boil and
cool it beforehand. Don't trust
your well, especially if it is a
dug well. for ten to one il isl
polluted Take the trouble to-
boil the water. the interest on
the investment is very high.
Keep the baby in the open air in|
the shade. and lot it wear fan
mel bandagc around the stomach.
If your child is suddenly seized
with d.arrhoca on frothy vomit-
ing. stop its milk at once and
feed it on raw white Of egg.
gelatine and perfectly fresh meat
or chicken broth; and do not give
it milk again until the diarrhoea
has stopped. Never Try to treat
looseness of the bowels i'm a baby
in hot weather yourself, but send
at once for a doctor.
DIED: Tuesday July %, 1905.
of Typhoid fever. Mrs. Frank
Blessinger, age 40 years. she.
leaves her husband and 4 children.
to mourn her loss, her remains.
were laid to rest in st. Joseph Isl
cemetry Thursday morning after.
the the funeral services at St.
Joseph's church conducted by
Rev Odilo.
Undertaken Martin EcksteinI
was in charge Of the funeral.
May she rest in peace.