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Some Kitchen Kinks: Health

HOT-WEATHER CARE OF INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN The following suggestions, given by F. W. Reilly, M.D., Assistant Commissioner of Health, and endorsed by W. A. Evans, M.D., Commissioner of Health, both of the Chicago Health Department, are the best to be obtained anywhere on the subject. The department claims that the advice contained in this article has been the means of saving the lives of more than eighty thousand babies and young children during the last eleven years, in Chicago alone.

We print the circular without further comment:

One third of the total yearly deaths of infants and young children in this city occur in the two hottest months of the year-July and August. 66 Heat kills off babies and young children largely because it spoils their milk and other food quickly.

Even breast milk, when the mother is overheated, may give the baby colic or summer complaint." If a mother is very hot, she should draw a teaspoonful or so from the breast before nursing her baby. If the breast has not been given for two hours or more, it should be drawn off in the same way. And if the mother has been badly frightened or very angry or excited, it is not safe to give the breast at all; it should be drawn and the milk thrown away.