Year: 1878




The New York board of health
has issued the following circular in
relation to the care and feeding Of
infants during tho hot weather:


In nursing, over feeding docs
more harm than anything else !;
nurse an infant q month or two old
every two or three hours. Nurse nm
infant of six months and over, five
times in twenty four hours and no
more. If an infant is thirsty give
it pure wator, or barley wlter, no
sugar On the hottest days, q few
drops of whiskey may be added to
either water or food, the whiskey
not to exceed O teaspoonful in
twenty-four hours.


If the infant must be fed, boil q
teaspoonful Of powdered barley
(eround in a coffse-grinder) and q
gill Of water, with lutte salt, for
fifteen minutes, strain, taen mix it
with half as much boiled milk, add
lump Of white sugar, size of a
walnut, and give it lukewarm from
nursing bottle; keep bottle and
mouth~piece in Il bowl of water
when not in use, to which u little
soda may added. For infants five
or six months old give half barley
water, and half boiled milk, with
salt and lump Of sugar. For oldor
infants give more milk than barley
water. For infants worry costive,
give oatmeal instead of barley.
Cook and strain as before. When
your breast-millS is only half
enough. change off between breast
milk and this prepared food.


In hot weather, if blue litmus-
paper, applied to the food, turns
red, the food is too acid, and you
must make fresh mess, or add
small pinch of baking soda. In
fants of six months may have beef
tea or beef soup once day, by itself,
or mixed with other food and when
ten or twelve months old, crust Of
bread on piece Of rare beef to suck,
No child uader two years ought to
eat at your table. Give no candies,
in fact, nothing that is not contained
in these rules, without doctors
orders.


Summer complaint comes from
ovor- tooding and hot foul air. Keep
doors and windows open. Wash
your well children with cold water
twice day, and oftener in the hot
season, Never neglect looseness of
the bowels in an infant consult
the family or dispensary physician
at once, and he will give you rules
about what it should take and how
it should be nursed. Keep your
rooms as cool IT'S possible, have them
well ventilated, and do not allow any
bad smell to como from sinks,
garbage-boxes or cutters about
the house where you live.
See that your own apartments are
right. Whoro an infantis cross and
irritble in the hot weather, a trip on
water will do it q great deal Of good,
ferryboat or excursion boat,) and
may prevent cholera infantum.


IHwART1NG AN INSURANCE DoDaE.---
A law of Virginia which became
operative this month, and which is
of concern to all insurance compa-
nies doing business in that Com
monwoa]th, provides "that il, any
action against on insurance company
no failure to perform any condition
Of it's policy, nor violation of any
restrictive provision thereof, shall
be n valid defense TO such action,
unless it appears that such condition
or restrictive provision is printed in
typo as large, or larger, than that
in which the acts of tho Assembly
are printed, to wit, that only
known as long primer typo, or is
! written with pen and ink in or on
the policy" This law was passed
in consequence of some insurance
companies printing restrictive con-
ditions in their policies in type
SO small that they could not be
easily read with the uaked eye. One
policy exhibited to the Legislature
had those conditions in pearl type.


LIVER IS K1Na.-The Liver is the
imperial organ of the whole human
system, as it controls the life, health
and happiness of man. When it ie
disturbed in it's proper action. ali
kinds of ailments ore the natural
result. The digestion Of food, the
movements of the heart and blood
the action of the brain and nervous
system, are all immediately con-
,oacta1 with tho uorl;,,pe of ~.