The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-11
WATCH The BABY
THRU HOT MONTHS
one-Fourth Of the Deaths are Babies-
one-haIf Of These From Trouble
Brought on During Hot
Months.
KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF
II Baby is Not Yours Hands off as
Handling 10 nJurious-Mo other
Does Not Like to Tell You
to Quit.

A city physician of neighboring
city has issued the following state
ments in regards to the care of a
baby during the hot summer months.
The advice contained can well be
needed by the admiring friends" for
they often prove the baby's worst en-
emies by their cuddlings, kissing prac-
tees:
The intense heat of summer SER
iously affects the health of infants,
according to statistics. Almost one
death in every four for the past
twenty years has been an infant I'M
der one year of age. One out of ev-
cry two of these babies has died
from some disease of the stomach or
bowels. This article is written with
the object OF reducing in some de-
gree this terrible death rate among
the little ones. 1t deals chiefly with
the care of the infants while they
are healthy, and attempts to suggest
how to prevent the most common
diseases. These stomach and bowel
troubles arrive at the beginning Of
the hot months-death's harvest time
Most OF the facts here given are IA
miliar, but often their importance is
not appreciated.
An infant loses heat more rapidly
than an adult, and consequently it
should be warmly clothed. Summer
clothing should be warm but light.
Linen should be worn next to the
body, and over this gauze flannel In
early infancy flannel band or
broad knit band over chest and alb
domen, snug but not tight should pc
worn. The limbs should be well Gov
cred, but their movement not con-
fined by the clothes. An infants
clothing should fit well, especially
about the breast and abdomen. If too
tight it may cause vomiting; if too
loose it irritates the babe by getting
into folds. Never allow babe to go
bareheaded in the sun; do not put a
shawl or hot bonnet tightly over It's
head and shoulders.
An infants bed from birth should
be soft mattress Never make
child's bed on feathers. Do not al
low babe, especially one with
diarrhoea, to sleep on the nurses
lap or shoulder, as this causes too
much heat. An infant, we'll or sick,
as far as possible, should always
sleep alone, because 1t may be
smothered while sleeping with an
adult. 1t is a bad habit of nursing a
child irregularly or letting 1t sleep
with the nipple In its mouth; it's
also very injurious. For the child's
"nightie" use a dress of outing
cloth, closed at the bottom
A daily bath is very essential to
health. Have the water at about go
degrees. Soap the infant with the
best CASTLE or other good soap, then
and wipe dry If the feet hands or
nose remain cold, substitute spong
Ing for the full bath. A morning
sponge bath, lasting half a minute
with cool mot too cold) water Is often
q safeguard against bronchitis, end
may be given with advantage to hearty
children. tepid sponge bath will
OIten act DeDteT tndH medicine 70 dl
lay restlessness and fever. Many chill
dren are often too much irritated by
too much rubbing and patting, rolling
and turning accompanying bath.
AS rule, every child should be
taken out every day. Keep it out Of
the sun. and do not let the wind
blow directly IN its face. When in
doors the child should be kept in the
sunniest ARREST room; also an in
FAINT should not be out of doors after
sunset.
Food for the Baby.
Most infants who die in summel
are victims of bowel troubles. These
are caused chiefly by wrong, fault,
feeding of had food