Infant care.

Date:
1945
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Infant care. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that is not near a swampy region where mosquitoes can breed. The water supply should be safe. If the water comes from a well or spring, this should be located where it cannot be polluted by drainage from barns, stables, cesspools, or privies.t It is a good plan to have the drinking water tested once a year. Write to your State department of health to have your . water tested. Cesspools, septic tanks, and _privies should be so built that the health of the family is protected.” Garbage, unless fed to livestock, must be burned or buried. If burned, it must be completely destroyed so that no moist parts remain to bring flies; if buried, it must be buried so deep that animals cannot dig it up. Any stagnant. water (water that is not flowing) can become a breeding *See Farmstead Water Supply (Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1448, U. S. Department of Agri- culture, Washington, 1933, 38 pp.). *See Farm Plumbing (Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1426, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash- ington, 1944, 22 pp.) and The Sanitary Privy (Supplement No. 108 to the Public Health Re- ports, U.S. Treasury Department, Public Health Service, Washington, 1933, 45 pp.). place for mosquitoes, and every effort should be made to avoid having any such water near the house. One way to prevent mosquitoes from breeding in a rain barrel is to screen the top of it with a tightly fitting cover made of window screening. Other Neighborhood Conditions For the first year or two of a child’s life he does not need to play with other children so much as he will later. As he gets a little older it will be valuable to him to be able to play with the neigh- borhood group of children. Parents selecting a home that they expect to be permanent will want to locate in a neighborhood where there are other families with children and where ade- quate and safe play space is available in the home yard or a nearby playground. They should consider, too, the nearriess of good schools. THE HOUSE ITSELF The house should have good drain- age and good heating and lighting arrangements, and some of the rooms should have plenty of sunshine. The cellar should be dry. A sunny porch, where young children can play when the ground is damp, is a_ great advantage. Every window and every outside door should be screened. It is a good idea to have porches screened too. Flies carry disease germs, especially those of typhoid fever and dysentery. The flies get their feet covered with disease germs when walking over ma- nure piles, unscreened privies, open garbage cans, or any other place where filth accumulates. Then, unless the house is well screened, the flies enter the house and walk over the family’s food. To protect food, especially the baby’s, from diseases carried by flies, not only