Hygiene of the nursery : including the general regimen and feeding of infants and children ; massage, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life / by Louis Starr.

  • Starr, Louis, 1849-1925.
Date:
1913
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Credit: Hygiene of the nursery : including the general regimen and feeding of infants and children ; massage, and the domestic management of the ordinary emergencies of early life / by Louis Starr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dows, where it runs the chance of being unduly heated or chilled. The temperature of the day nursery should range between 68° and 70° F.; that of the night nursery from 64° to 68° for infants under three months old; after the third month a temperature of 55° is allow- able, and when the child is a year old it may be as low as 50° or 45°. The proper method of heating is by an open fire- place in which either wood or coal is burnt. Either of these fires is superior to a furnace, simply because they serve a double purpose, namely, heating and ventilating. My personal preference is for an old- fashioned hearth, where oak or other quietly burn- ing logs can be used, since a wood fire is more readily lighted and regulated, and is a better venti- lator than one of coals. Still, in our cHmate, with its manifold and sudden changes, it is so essential to have a source of heat constantly at hand that it is difl&cult to banish the furnace register from any living room. Therefore, while recognizing the dis- advantage of furnace heat, in that it makes the air too dry, it is well to supply the nurseries with both means of heating, using the open fire in moderate weather and the furnace only in the presence of severe cold. For general heating the modern hot- water radiating system is to be much preferred to the old hot-air furnace and to steam heating; with