The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-06-06
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(By State Board of HEALTH


Summer has come to Oklahoma and
with the advent of the real hot wealth
er nearly everyone begins to think
of vacation. Vacations are good,
complete change of environment once
year is stimulating and healthful
for both mind and body. But it is
well to remember that such a change
means new conditions and, unless pre-
cautions are observed, new dangers
to health.
Especially should these precautions
be observed in regard to children.
Children are more susceptible to dis
ease than adults, they are more af-
fected by change of environment,
their resisting powers are less. The
old maxim IAN ounce of prevention is
better than a pound of cure" applies
more forcibly to health than to any
other condition; it is especially true
as regards children. The precautions
to be observed are neither numerous
nor difficult. They are founded on
common sense and the simplest prin-
ciples of hygiene. 1t is better to OBJ
serve them than to let them go and
perhaps later call in the doctor to
make good the neglect For some
times not the physician, but the un-
dertaker will be called in.
First and foremost of summer pre-
cautions should be care in regard to
water. Too often persons preparing
to go on a vacation will study with
care the conditions obtaining in re
gard to scenery. temperature, society
and expense, yet never give a thought
to the purity of the water supply. 1t Is
at any particular summer resort is
good or bad, whether the supply is
liable to contamination or not. A
large percentage of typhoid cases are
due to impure water taken during
vacation time. Sometimes the disease
does not develop until after the return
home. Then the city water supply is
blamed. when the real fault was with
the water used while away. Children
are especially susceptible to illness
due to contaminated water. 1t is i'm
possible to be too careful in this re
spect.
Next to water, care should be eX-
ercised in regard to the milk supply.
AS general thing there is less dan
ger from the milk at summer resorts
than from the water, but it is well to
make certain. Milk is one of the prin-
ciple food elements of children, and
one of the best when pure, No pre-
caution to insure its purity should
be considered too much trouble"
Fruits are most welcome and most
of year when Nature intends we
should eat them most freely. But it
is well to remember that it is also
the time of year when they are most
apt to spoil. 1t is also the time when
children are most liable to eat unripe, |
green fruit. Many of the cases of stom-
ach trouble resulting from this cause
may seem trivial, but there il always |
danger of complications or serious ill |
ness.
1t is hardly necessary to say that |
the hot weather is above all the time
when alcoholic drinks of every sort
should be avoided. No one ever was !
made cooler by such drinks. On the
contrary, the effect is exactly opposite.
A very large proportion of the sun
and heat strokes are those of per-
sons who haSe been indulgilg in
such beverages. 1t is a mistake to
talk of alcoholic "stimulants." Alcohol
does not stimulate. 1t has a deaden
ing and repressiye effect on both brain
and body. Soda water, ice cream,
lemonade are especially welcome in
the hot months and in moderation are
harmless, but every drink containing
alcohol should be especially avoided
during the heated term.
1t is we'll to remember that vacation
is a time for rest. a well as for change
and recreation. 1t is possible, in fact
only too easy and common, to overdo
even amusements during vacation, and /
the old joke about returning home to
rest up after vacation has foundation
in fact. Moderation in all things is
good vacation rule The vacation is