The prevention of choleraic diarrhoea, and lead poisoning ; Things to be remembered for health's sake ; and How to bring up children / by John Pitney Aston.

  • Aston, John Pitney.
Date:
1894
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Credit: The prevention of choleraic diarrhoea, and lead poisoning ; Things to be remembered for health's sake ; and How to bring up children / by John Pitney Aston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Meat-Juice. Filters and Lead Poisoning. Proper Water Service to prevent corks and tubes from becoming foul and turning the milk sour, and a single drop of sour milk may cause fatal illness in a child. At least two feeding bottles should be kept in use and as soon as fed the feeding bottle and teat should be well cleansed throughout with hot water and when not in use the whole should be kept in a basin of cold water with a pinch of Bicarbonate of Soda dissolved in the water, and rinsed with clean water before use. The raw meat-juice is prepared by well mincing a pound of raw Beef, adding one tablespoonful of water, well pressing the whole through a muslin bag and giving the expressed juice in half teaspoonful doses. Filters also require thorough cleaning at least every week, by running through them a teaspoonful of Condy’s Fluid, mixed with a quart of water, and afterwards again run through with clean water. They should be of animal charcoal, allow of the charcoal being easily renewed, not cemented in, and without sponges. It may be stated in connection with the Medical Officer’s lead-poisoning agitation, that in Eccleshill, since the use of Filters and the hardening of the water, the annual death rate has fallen from over 19 per 1,000 of population to 14 per 1,000, and the Infantile Mortality has been reduced by one half, moreover the annual birth rate which fell 9 per 1,000 in the lead poisoning time has latterly gone up by 6 per 1,000. But in wet weather and where there are long lengths of lead pipes there is still danger, and in such cases all drinking and cooking water should either be filtered through a Mawson and Swan, or other reliable Animal Charcoal Filter, or else the Tap allowed to run full for a minute or two each morning. Do not waste what is run off, but use it for washing and cleansing purposes. Never fill the kettle from the hot ivater tap. Never occupy a house with lead hot water cistern, or long lead service pipes, and Sanitary Authorities who allow them should be liable to prosecution. In all New Houses Lead Service ought to be strictly prohibited, iron pipes coated with Angus Smith’s solution, or iron pipes with tin or glass lining being used. The w.c. cistern may be of lead. Extract from Is my House Healthy ? How to find out. By Dr. Cameron, Medical Officer of Health, Leeds. Price Is. R. Jackson, Commercial Street, Leeds. Copies may be had at the Local Board Office. Do not yourself create a nuisance for your own household and your neighbour’s, by harbouring live stock on close premises. _ If your ashpit and other receptacle be within twenty yards of your house, insist upon its being frequently and regularly emptied. Limit the contents of your ashes-place by consuming all solid vegetable and animal refuse in the kitchen fire. Keep your ashpit also dry—the drain, and not the dust-bin, should receive all liquid slops. Cleanse every gully in your yard once a week, and perhaps oftener in summer; and in warm weather flush out each trap at night before going to bed. The smaller and closer your backyard, the more necessary are these precautions, if you would have your house healthy. Eccleshill, July, 1894.