The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

THE HEALTH BULLETI^'. 105these stock lectures while some oueelse operates the slides in any ordinarystereopticon lantern.The State Board of Health offersloan these slides and lectures free ofcharge to any school, church, club, organization,or public-spirited citizenwho will agree to give a lecture fromthem, provided they pay the expresscharges to their town. Then they mayhold the slides and lecture until wesend them an order requesting thatthey be shipped to some one else.Besides the slides and lectures, thisBoard will also send you special bulletinsto help you get posted on the subjecton which you expect to lecture, anda limited quantity of various kinds ofpublic health leaflets which may be distributedamong the audience after thelecture.Here is a golden opportunity for anyone at all interested in giving his club,church, or community an entertainingand instructive lecture.Our church people are beginning tohave more compassion on their overworkedpreachers, and are giving themmore generous vacations. Laymen whorelieve the regular minister should findthese lectures an excellent method ofcontinuing the regular meetings.Health work, after all, is only onetophase of Christian activity, and if thelecturer wants to add more religion tohis lecture, let him draw lessons fromthe life of the Great Physician, or lethim teach modern sanitation from theBook of Deuteronomy.Doctors usually make excellent peopleto deliver such lectures. However,on account of the delicacy of medicalethics and on account of the difficultyin getting a good audience to an ordinarylecture, doctors thus far havenot, as a rule, volunteered to givehealth lectures as freely as they might.But if some church, school, or publicspiritedcitizen will invite a doctor togive one of these illustrated lecturesthere will be little danger of his notaccepting the invitation. Try it once.To secure these slides and lectures.write the State Board of Health, Raleigh.Do not announce the date for alecture until you find out when youcan get the slides.If the idea proves popular, the Boardwill be glad ro add several more sets ofslides and lectures on different sub-.iects, and possibly for those communitiesnot having ready access to stereopticonlanterns the Board may latersecure one or more traveling lanternsto loan out with the slides. Let usknow how the idea appeals to you.FEEDING SICK BABIES.If it were possible to obtain an accuraterecord of baby sickness, it wouldbe found that many babies get sick inJune and the early part of July, thoughthe baby death i-ate does not begin toshow much rise until after the middleof the latter month.The asylums, sanitaria, hospitals, andbaby tents find that the children whoare severely sick in midsummer give ahistory of mild sickness in the earlysummer. It is the old. old story of the"stitch in time saving nine."Loose bowels, green stools, mucus,and blood cannot be neglected with anydegree of safety after June 15th in thisclimate and June 1st in warmer climates.The child may seem to be happy,not upset by the little indigestion, andit may seem useless to worry about sotrifling a matter. But. unless thesetrifles are attended to. things will getworse as the weather gets hotter, and.presently, the baby is in a conditionwhere no food seems to agree with itand no doctor seems to help it. The