Evening times-Republican., 1913-07-16

~ So&o AOT OdDleS duN W PACNS"S
diarrhea. sickness and death. the health
department recommends. the following
rules:
Give the baby pure air day and night.
Do not allow the baby to remain In a
close room or where you are washing
or cooking. Always keep a window
open in the baby's sleeping room.
Give the baby no food but mothers
milk, milk from the bottle or food d.
rected by physician. The best food
for a baby under 1 year of age is
mothers milk. One Of the chief causes
Of sickness in babies comes from over
feeding, and often causes diarrhea long
sickness. and death. Feed the baby
regularly. From birth to months
old. the child may be fed every two to
two and one-half hours; from to s
months. every two and one-helf to
three hours; from months to year.
every three hours. These feelings are
to be during the day only. from to
IS. The child should be fed not more
than twice during the night. If the child
cries or frets between nursing offer 1t
pure cool water without anything in 1t.
Never wean a child in the beginning
of the summer.
The best food for bottle children"
is clean fresh milk that has not been
skinned, from COWS that have been
tuberculin tested. Cows milk without
water in it should never be fed to very
young babies. Keep the milk cool and
it will keep sweet. To keep it sweet,
get 1t from a milk man whose wagon.
cans, bottles and horse look clean. II
you know where his cows are kept. look
at the cows and look at his stable. and
see if they are clean. or ask the health
officer for information concerning your
milk man. Keep the nursing bottle
clean. Boil 1t. Never lei the bottle
stand with milk in 1t after the child is
for the bottle.
Be sure that baby gets enough sleep.
two maps during the day at least. Don (
awaken the baby to feed it. Get the
baby in the habit Of going to sleep
without rocking. Crying is one way in
which children learn to develop their
lungs. If they are let alone and al
lowed to have their cry out, instead OF
being tossed and petted. and hushed.
they would be better for it. Don't fear
the crying child will rupture itself.
Don't get the baby in the ha bit of being
held. Let the child alone. with some
one 10 watch it. but not to handle 1t.
Do not put too much clothing on a
child in warm weather. Keep the
child's abdomen warm. it will help
keep away diarrheal attacks. The pin
ming blanket is not good thing; it
nterferes with the movements of the
baby's legs. Unless child is very del
cate, lis clothing in his weather should
consist Of shirt. petticoat, cotton
dress. and diaper. Diapers should be OF
cotton cloth. They should be changed
as soon as wet. and should be immeai-
ately put into hot SOFA water and
washed out. Every time the child 9
bowels move the part should be well
washed and all the creases about tha:
out. The baby Is ofte;i made sore be /.
cause il is not well washed, ard be-
cause baby powder is rut on while !.
/ is still dirty. and because the diapers
are not washed eat. but are only dried
aad piit on again.
\ taby should be bathed every
morning regularly at a certain hour,
| in water one or two degrees warmer
than its cwn body. Test the water by
putting your face into il. never the
arm cr hand.
II a child becomes sick in hot
| weather. take off all its clothes exceo:
the diaper. and put on night dress.
/ If its skin is hot. wipe II all over with