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

106 THE HEALTH BULLETIN.mother must carry on her loug.wearyfight to keep the jioor, skinuy baby aliveuntil the nights get cool in October.The first thing to do when the babygets sick is to stop feeding it. TrobablyThe milk is bad anyhow. But. whetherit be good or bad, it will disagree witha sick baby. In place of milk the babyshould take clean water from a cleanbottle or a clean cup. If the troublekeeps up there are milk substituteswhich can be given until it is safe togive milk again. The physician or nursewill demonstrate how these are made.The next step, after str>iiiiing the food,is to empty the child's intestines of allfermenting, decomposing food. The parentis justified in going as far in thisline as the use of oil by the mouth andof simple enemas by injection. If reliefdoes not come when these haveacted, the mother is not justified in goingfurther. She should get help froma physician or nurse. Caring for a sickbaby is so largely '"doing and showing,"as contrasted with "telling," that anurse is needed more than would usuallybe the case.As the child goes back on milk, let itbe watered milk or good buttermilk. Ifthe first feeding agrees, let the next beslightly less watered, and the next stillless, until within a few days the diet isone proper for the age and the season ofthe year. Occasionally a mother continuesto give watery milk after the acutetrouble has subsided and the baby in afew weeks shows signs of starvation.Remember—a baby with indigestioncan be starved by overfeeding. The indigestionpassed, it may be starved byunderfeeding. Dr. W. A. Evans in TheChicafioTrihvne.HOW ASHEVILLE DOES IT.When a case of typhoid fever occursin Asheville. the dairyman deliveringmilk to the afflictetl family is immediatelynotified of the fact. That is usuallyenough to make the dairyman feelthat to some extent his dairy is chargedup with the case, until it is proven thatno further cases occur on his route orthat the first case was due to somethingelse.Furthermore, the dairyman is notallowed to remove milk bottles from thepremises of the sick person until thebottles have been sterilized by thehealth department. This is a very wiseprovision, because typhoid germs growvery rapidly in milk, and if the milkbottle should become accidentally contaminatedwith typhoid germs in thetyphoid-stricken home the dairymanmight contaminate his other bottles andcans in the course of ordinary washingand spread the disease to the rest of hiscustomers. This is a very good precaution.What is the policy of yourtown is this matter?— w. h. b..Jesus was rebuked in the elder dayfor healing an infirm man on the Sabbath.And those who rebuked Himthought it perfectly all right to save asheep on the Sabbath. The sheep wasa piece of property. It was money, itwas value. "How much better is a manthan a sheep?" He asked, and the doctors,the reformers, the cranks, havebeen thundering that to the multitudeever since, and the multitude has begunWithin our own day, we haveto listeii.seen legislatures appropriate more forhog serum than for tuberculosis, morefor the hog than for the human; but aman is getting to be worth as much asa hog in this State, and he is going tobe worth more.— ir. T. Bost in TheXeics and Observer.