The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-11
RULES LAID DOWN
BY HEALTH BOARD
Something That Every Mother
and Father i'm City Should
Read.
N,P0RTANT BULLETIN
ON CARING FOR BABIES
Care of Scarlet Fever Patients
Also Gone Into at Some
Length.

DR.. M r. Stewart, city health com.
missioner, and his assistants, Drs. S. G.
Paul, +. II. Raley and r. ". Fisher,
are going after infectious and contagi-
Gus diseases in Salt Lake City with a
vengeance.
A series Of health department cir
culars has Just been issued, carrying
instructions to the people, and giving
advice on ways TO prevent the spread
of various diseases.
Perhaps the most important bulletin
is one entitled, "Summer Care Of
Babies-How to Keep Baby Well, y
which gives the following advice TO
mothers: "Nurse your baby. Mother's s
milk is the best Of all foods. Do not
wean your baby in hot weather. Ten
bottle-fed babies die to one that is
breast-fed. Most babies are over-fed
or fed too often Feed the baby every
four hours. If he cries between feed
ing times, give him drink of cooled
boiled water. If you cannot nurse your
baby, consult your doctor before giving
ii the bottle. Give the baby good,
clean milk, prepared exactly as the doc;
tor directs. Keep the milk always cold
and covered. Give medicine only by
order of the doctor Never give any
coffee or beer. sodawater (popl, or any
drink containing alcohol. Teething
alone is seldom the cause for sickness,
Call your doctor; don t think it s only
the teeth. Diarrhoea is dangerous. AT
tend TO II AZ once.
eff the baby is sick with diarrhoca
or vomiting, stop the milk. Give only
plain water or barley water, until the
diarrhoea has stopped. Keep the baby
ut-of doors all you can. Give him
bed TO himself. A cothesbasket will
make a good bed for him. Open the
window Do not be afraid of fresh air
Keep the baby clean. Give him bath
every day. Keep flies out of the
house. and protect the baby from them.
Hot weather does not kill babies
babies. If YOU are in trouble about
Your baby. and cannot pay for doc
Tor, go TO the county physician, or send
word to the Salt Lake City department
Of health
Regarding Scarlet Fever,
Another important bulletin OH scar
let fever, which should be tackled up in
side of the house, reads as follows:
: Inmates of the house must stay in
doors. The disease is always dangerous
and easily gwen TO others. 1t is catch,
ing from the mildest cases. Those not
sick enough to be IN bed give the dis
ease 10 others oftener than do the very
sick. Scarlet fever patients must not
leave the house until the department
OF health has disinfccted the house and
taken down the warning sign. Keep
the patient in one room. No one but
the doctor and necessary attendants
should be allowed TO visit the patient
il IS against the law to do so,
Persons living where there is a
case of scarlet fever will not be al
They must either stay In the house all
the time. or be fumigated, and room
and board away from home all Of the
time, until the department of health
takes down the warning sign.
"Fisitors Will not be allowed to en-
ter the house. Groceries and milk must
be left at the door. Everything, in
Guiding laundry, letters, bedding. books,
magazines. papers and clothing, must
dlsinfeeted before they are taken out
of the house.
AS to Sick Room.
Everything used in the sick room,
such as knives, forks, spoons, dishes,
books, playthings. handkerchiefs, tow
els, sheets, piliowslips, clothing flow
ers and remnants of food, must be put
in a disinfectant solution before taken
from the room.
Do not let the patient spit on the
floor. Spit and nose discharges will
give the disease to others, and should
be caught on cloths and put into a
strong disinfeetant solution or burned.
Do not kiss the patient After
touching the patient. wash your handS.
School children and others must stay
Mt home. No one is allowed to go TO
church, Sunday Or other public
places The placards on the doors must
not he taken down by any one, except
Il health officer. 1t is against the law
20 do so. No matter how we'll the pa
tient may look or feel, until the depart
ment Of health has disinfected the
house, and taken down the warning
sign, the patient must be kept away
from others. If these rules are not
obeyed, the people will be prosecuted -