Babyhood . seful. F. A., Natick, Mass.—1. Your baby already ispartly fed. Before summer is over she will bedepending almost entirely on prepared food. Itis not probable that your breast will have much,if any, value in preventing sickness in the hotweather. 2. The restlessness on going to sleep isannoying, but is not a sign of illness if it is so BAB YHOOD. 221 easily overcome. We would not advise anymedicinal treatment. Avoid any excitement orplaying with baby as bed-time approaches,as these things tend to make a child other habit will be broken when the childis weaned. Mrs.
Babyhood . seful. F. A., Natick, Mass.—1. Your baby already ispartly fed. Before summer is over she will bedepending almost entirely on prepared food. Itis not probable that your breast will have much,if any, value in preventing sickness in the hotweather. 2. The restlessness on going to sleep isannoying, but is not a sign of illness if it is so BAB YHOOD. 221 easily overcome. We would not advise anymedicinal treatment. Avoid any excitement orplaying with baby as bed-time approaches,as these things tend to make a child other habit will be broken when the childis weaned. Mrs. £., Polo, ///.—There is no harmthat we can think of likely to arise from the prolonged use of the food you mention. If thebaby ceases to thrive, then try to ascertain if heneeds a change or something additional. Mrs. L. St., Brooklyn.—We do not quite un-derstand your question. But if you mean toinquire if such a child should be weaned before j hot weather, we would say that it probably I ought to TIMELY TOPICS. Disposal of Slops and Garbage. From one of the many excellent publicationsof the Michigan State Board of Health we takethe following, being a portion of an address byDr. J. H. Kellogg, of Battle Creek, recently de-livered at a sanitary convention : If you knew what an unsavory subject I haveyou would be glad enough to have it put offand I should be glad to be excused. A manmet a boy on the street the other day and said : Sambo, what makes you put all the nice peacheson top? He said : Mr. Jones, it is for thesame reason that you have Milwaukee pressedbrick in front of your house, while the back-yardis chiefly slop-barrel. We put these things inthe back-yard, out of sight, but they are theredoing their work of mischief. Wherever we havedecomposable matter, animal or vegetable, germsabound. A great many diseases are produced by is rather a modern doctrine, but it is foundby careful investigation that germs have to dowith a very large number of disease
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