The Coconino sun., 1916-03-24

rarely, in breast fed baby, that it is traceable in the great percentage of cases to the exclusive use of proprie- tary infant foods.
 Tickets, that bugbear of all mothers, is disease in which there is a defect i've development of the bony struct- ures and as undue softness of the bones. This results in severe cases in deformities that may never be over come and leave their earmarks for many years, to the experienced eye. Besides these definite changes, child with rickets has constitution much lessened in resistance to withstand the attacks of acute disease. Thus, child with rickets is more liable to take pneumonia and once contracted the chances for recovery are much less than in normal baby. Tickets is more common disease than scurvy Both are entirely preventable. Per haps the best preventative for rickets ! is the use of mothers milk for all in fants and where this is not available the use of unboiled and properly pre- paired cows milk. In another paper to be given here this morning, the subject of proper feeding has been brought out more fully, so that I will not go into details.
 There remains now a great number of diseases that cause more suffering and death in the ranks of babies than all other diseases put together. These we my call the germs or bacterial diseases. Bacteria are the lowest form of animal life and are so small that they can be seen only by mi croscope with high magnifying power. There are two main classes of bacte- ria, those that are harmless and those that produce disease. They all possess the property of multiplying rapidly when planted in the proper soil. Pois- ons produced in this rapid growth are responsible for destructive changes in the tissues where they are formed and for the symptoms of disease in the body. Before bacteria can cause dis ease they must gain access into the system. There are two methods by which bacteria chiefly enter the system. One of these by inhaling them into the respiratory passages, via the nose, throat and windpipe into the lungs. They may lodge in any one of these locations and if conditions are proper may begin to multiply with re- sultant disease of the part. The more the question is studied by scientists the firmer becomes the conviction that what we call cold is due to the acti- vity of bacteria. Once they have taken foothold in the mucous membrane of the nose or throat, they may spread and involve the bronchial tubes and finally the lining of the air spaces of the lung and we have pneumonia developed from what was first nothing more than an ordinary cold. It is also well known that the lniing of the air passages are fitted with certain de- lenses that tend to kill or throw of such bacteria as may enter, if their number is not too great. Should these first defenses be insufficient to over come the onslaught, there is second line of defense and that is the pro perty of the blood to kill bacteria. The redness and inflammation is evid- ence that there is more blood in the part and this additional reinforcement is finally able to subdue, after time, the increase of bacterial growth and it's effects.
 Now the question arises what can be done in preventative way against the original invasion?
 Prevention here follows two distinct lines, first to keep the bacteria rom getting into contact with the suscept- ible parts and second to have the body in such a state of well-being that should they enter the defenses are , well prepared to take care of them. If the air which is breathed contains , no bacteria, there is no chance of their entering. Rooms well ventilated are less liable to be dangerous from this source than those which are inhabited by someone with cough and who persists in keping the windows tightly closed. Proper ventilation is, there fore, all the more essential when there is someone around who is liable to in feet others. Never kiss any baby, nol breathe nor cough into its face, espe' cially if you are suffering from cold P and you are taking the most import ant precaution; because the germ l which in your case may be causing : only an insignificant cold, when trans
 z--..