Volume 1

Health lectures for the people.

Date:
1883-1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health lectures for the people. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dangers of overstraining when lifting a patient in bed. Those who are about to become mothers are often ignorant of many dangers which they run. Dr Underhill will follow with a lecture on Children, and will speak of such matters as when, and how, to wean a child, of the food to be given at different ages, of sleep, of warmth, and of clothing. It is clear that there are many things which rich and poor have yet to learn on this subject. Dr Macadam will lecture upon Water. Now water is a great vehicle for the spread of infection. There is a whole class of diseases habitually spread and communicated by means of water. What the protections are that you can all take, will be explained to you by Dr Macadam. I observe that he is going to speak of the abuse as well as the use of water. You may ask, How can water be abused] and I will tell you one mode, Simply by allowing it to run to waste. The best method of supplying water is that known as the constant supply, by which the watei is drawn direct from the mains without exposing it for a single instant in a cistern to the risk of infection. But what is the great difficulty in the way of the introduction of that system? Simply that people have not intelligence enough not to allow the water to run to waste. Therefore it is the duty of all people to prevent the waste of water, and to use it intelligently. Professor Fraser will lecture on The Use and Abuse of Stimulants—Alcohol and Tobacco. I know nothing about this subject, and therefore I will say nothing about it; but I am per- fectly convinced of its great importance. Dr Smart will follow, with a lecture on Preventable Diseases and their Causes; and in connection with that subject will speak of the spread of disease by means of milk, water, air, clothes, and so forth. He will also explain the objects of registration of disease. These lectures, if well prepared, well attended, and well fol- lowed, cannot but have a good effect, and it is the duty of all who can to attend them. Those who attend must put in practice what they then learn.