St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1913-09-27

IS an OOllgat1On you owe to the chill,
You have right to insist to pr,
serve the health of those under you
charge, that no child exposed to cor
tagious and infectious diseases be a
lowed to mingle in your classroom
and roam with the children at larg.
This should be duty you owe
your own personal health, as well t
the child, for the preserving and con
serving of his or her health. Th
apathy of parents, especially those o
the more humble class in regard t,
sex-hygiene, is to-day one of tn
unfortunate and to be regretted ca
lamities among children. No chile
can grow and develop tue mine
with full vigor and strength, with tn.
apathy and neglect of parents as tt
the laws of Natures hygiene. Ma
ture study on true biolog cal laws, in.
sofar as the rules of your school sys.
tenn permit, should in your own hum.
BILE and modest way be given to the
child as a teacher during those hours
IN which so much depends on you
for the preservation Of health. You
should endeavcr to find those child
rem who might have those defects
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blamed. The question of adenoids
has become such an important issue
in the educational development of
the child, that the larger cities have
medical inspection in regular form.
BY observing those signs and symp-
toms of the child, the apparent dull
ness, the inability to grasp the simple
rules of study, you will find these
little sufferers are dull not through
lack of application to their work,
but to their inability to get the prop
er amount of air through the respi-
ratory passages. You here can In
struct parents to bring their child to
their physician to be examined for
| adenoids, which should be removed
like any other harmful product, when
deemed proper. 1t is quite well
established medical and surgical fact.
that a child. will improve, gain
weight and become from one with
listless expression to one Of bright
ness and cheer You have q per-
feet right to insist of the parents
that any child under your personal
care from 8 to 3 o'clock, be given
every opportunity to develop the
mind and be able to apply that mind
by application to study, but you cam
not insist upon the child the order
to be q leader in the classroom
when that child lachs the fundamen-
tai and prime qualitiessto appiystn
study. You are responsible to tie
child to notice its defects In sixht. the
apparent lack of sound to the center
of hearing and those terrible defects
OF breathing caused by mechanical
obstruction. You cannot expect a
child whose nervous system is Just
beginning to bud and develop, whose
bcny frame is only splinter of de-
velopment. to acquire excellence ir
the monthly report when the unnat-
ural causes and defects are so prom.
inent.
Professor Kerley, Of New York, an
authority on diseases of childhood | !
says: when child has an OBJ
struction to his natural breathing {
whether it be large or small
these signs are always present: the I
open mouth. the stupid expression
the deafness and inability to GRASP /
thoughts, all combine to make a pic I
ture presented by no other condi !
tion.''
A. teacher can do much in moral :
training and persuasion, and by good 4
counsel to their charges, as to the q
dangers when exposed to CONTAGIOUS .
and infectious diseases A child liy- '
Ing in an infected home, wherein has
been measels, scarlet fever, dip
iberia, chicken pox or varicella, has =
10 right to ciiter the school room, I'M y
ess the teacher is certain Of the y
proper isolation and precautions of 4
he infected source and the child who n
las been exposed has had complete !
'hange of clothing. l must admit
.hcse suggestions may be hard to car =
y out, but from the sanitary and .,
lygientc standpoint they should be !,
enforced. 1t is wise to familiarize -
'oprself with the study Of germs and Il
low disease is propagated. because a,
n SO doing you can tell and accom- m
'lish often what parents cannot do.
'ell how tuberculosis is propagated
nd spread by the dried sputum, of .,
he vtrulence of the bacilli; how it =
an be spread by the act of kissing =
ne so infected, and the dangers of -,
he common drinking cup: of how ~ ~
1hooping-cough is carried through y,
he respiration, and measels and scar y.
ct fever by the dried and desqua- =. =,
1ated epithelial cells of the skin. y, "
mpress puon children to evade the -
iseases known as the Diseases Of -. ~
for the old adage "go q. o,
round measels to catch measels'' Is D,
for often serious and ia :. -
II complications follow these dread. az a.
diseases OF the child, Impress w
pom the child to preserve his or her -
ealth by the personal hygiene and ~ ~
ean1iness Of the body. Every dig ~ ="
ase whether It be one OF the most - -
lfecious or one of the more benign III
lrives best In Nth and unclean an
and homes, which are not W.
rOperly ventilated, where foul odors az
ominate and where lack of sunshine WI
i'd oxygen plays the important role pu
daily life and in the preservation
health. Such laws apply to the sn
You should always watch as
j much as conditions will permit I'M
e openings for the incoming and WI
ltgoing current of air, the incoming
r to be taken into the lungs, the 10.
ltgoing air thrown OF by the lungs otl
ID filed with GORDON -dioxide and M
Many diseases Of the lung ma
n be traced back to the lack of er,
e proper elements in the air in a
rson's mode of environment We wa
ID those of an Office, closely con. PR
ed, pale and sallow to the rugged sec
a tanned skin of the country lad ent
of outdoor life. To prevent that spe
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