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12 The Health Bulletin May, 193 7 other four-hour periods which may fit in best with the family routine just so the regularity is maintained. Breast feeding starts the baby off right and it is essential to see that supplementary feedings are kept scrupulously free of contamination. Milk should be pasteurized or boiled. After milk is received in sealed bottles, it should be handled in an absolutely cleanly manner and kept cold. Harmful bacteria % do not multiply at low temperatures. Diarrheas and intestinal diseases are caused largely by feeding contaminated milk or water. The former high sickness and death rates of the baby's second summer have been reduced chiefly through proper care in making sure that baby's food and drink are clean. Mothers worry greatly about baby's constipation. Diarrhea is much more serious and requires the prompt advice and care of the physician. Regularity, balanced diet, exercise, and sufficient fluids will usually correct constipation. Do not give laxatives, purgatives or cathartics, no matter who says that they are harmless; they only aggravate the tendency to sluggish bowel elimination. Occasional use of a small suppository, carefully fashioned from pure soap and wet in warm water before insertion may be permissible. If the infant develops a "tummy-ache" it is even more dangerous to risk giving a laxative as an inflamed appendix may thereby be caused to rupture. Even some who should know much better continue to give laxatives promiscuously and keep our deaths from the complications of appendicitis at a disgracefully high level. Almost every day we read "-, small son (or daughter) of Mr. and Mrs. -, died from appendicitis operation." It would be far more accurate to say "-died from purgation," for, as Doctor Hubert Royster says, these deaths can be attributed to "purgation, procrastination and peritonitis." We do not appreciate sunlight as much as we should. When we consider how essential in our lives the sun is we do not wonder that many peoples have been sun-worshippers. Sunlight enables baby to utilize food for proper development, especially in the growth of bones. In warm weather, beginning sun baths are best given when the rays are less intense in the morning or late afternoon, rather than between 10 a. m. and 3 p. m. Expose the whole body for only about five minutes the first day—always with eyes protected. The period of time may be lengthened three minutes each day till the sun baths last a half hour each morning and afternoon. Even in early spring, late fall and on certain days in winter the beneficial effect of sunlight may be utilized. If parents occasionally remind themselves that baby's life is to be planned toward his present and future health and happiness rather than to satisfy their or occasional visitors' whims and desire for amusement, a reasonable basis for progress will have been attained. Our Front Cover This Month IN our opinion, we are not only publishing one of the most beautiful photographs that has ever appeared in The Health Bulletin on our front cover this month, but the manner in which this child is being reared has a number of lessons for every parent in North Carolina. We have a large number of readers who frequently write us that they have been constant readers of The Health Bulletin for many years. To these and others we would like to recall that we published a photograph of Hilda on the front
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-04: The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1937 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-052 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 52 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 12 |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1937 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-052-0082 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; report/review; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Filename | healthbulletinse52nort_0082.jp2 |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 52 |
Issue Number | 5 |
Page Number | 12 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | 12 The Health Bulletin May, 193 7 other four-hour periods which may fit in best with the family routine just so the regularity is maintained. Breast feeding starts the baby off right and it is essential to see that supplementary feedings are kept scrupulously free of contamination. Milk should be pasteurized or boiled. After milk is received in sealed bottles, it should be handled in an absolutely cleanly manner and kept cold. Harmful bacteria % do not multiply at low temperatures. Diarrheas and intestinal diseases are caused largely by feeding contaminated milk or water. The former high sickness and death rates of the baby's second summer have been reduced chiefly through proper care in making sure that baby's food and drink are clean. Mothers worry greatly about baby's constipation. Diarrhea is much more serious and requires the prompt advice and care of the physician. Regularity, balanced diet, exercise, and sufficient fluids will usually correct constipation. Do not give laxatives, purgatives or cathartics, no matter who says that they are harmless; they only aggravate the tendency to sluggish bowel elimination. Occasional use of a small suppository, carefully fashioned from pure soap and wet in warm water before insertion may be permissible. If the infant develops a "tummy-ache" it is even more dangerous to risk giving a laxative as an inflamed appendix may thereby be caused to rupture. Even some who should know much better continue to give laxatives promiscuously and keep our deaths from the complications of appendicitis at a disgracefully high level. Almost every day we read "-, small son (or daughter) of Mr. and Mrs. -, died from appendicitis operation." It would be far more accurate to say "-died from purgation" for, as Doctor Hubert Royster says, these deaths can be attributed to "purgation, procrastination and peritonitis." We do not appreciate sunlight as much as we should. When we consider how essential in our lives the sun is we do not wonder that many peoples have been sun-worshippers. Sunlight enables baby to utilize food for proper development, especially in the growth of bones. In warm weather, beginning sun baths are best given when the rays are less intense in the morning or late afternoon, rather than between 10 a. m. and 3 p. m. Expose the whole body for only about five minutes the first day—always with eyes protected. The period of time may be lengthened three minutes each day till the sun baths last a half hour each morning and afternoon. Even in early spring, late fall and on certain days in winter the beneficial effect of sunlight may be utilized. If parents occasionally remind themselves that baby's life is to be planned toward his present and future health and happiness rather than to satisfy their or occasional visitors' whims and desire for amusement, a reasonable basis for progress will have been attained. Our Front Cover This Month IN our opinion, we are not only publishing one of the most beautiful photographs that has ever appeared in The Health Bulletin on our front cover this month, but the manner in which this child is being reared has a number of lessons for every parent in North Carolina. We have a large number of readers who frequently write us that they have been constant readers of The Health Bulletin for many years. To these and others we would like to recall that we published a photograph of Hilda on the front |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
Print / Download PDF Version | http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/nchh/nchh-04/nchh-04-052.pdf |
Document Sort | all; group-b; nchh-04 |
Article Title | Planning the Baby's Happiness |
Article Author | Norton, Roy |
Volume Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/identi/searchterm/NCHH-04-052 |
Title Link | http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/search/collection/nchh/field/documa/searchterm/NCHH-04 |
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