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8. To Nursing Mothers.—The living connection between the
body of the mother and the body of the child, which exists before
birth, and makes both suffer from injurious influences, continues
throughout the period of suckling. Nursing mothers should avoid
fatigue and worry, live on plain nutritious diet, and avoid spirits.
For a nursing mother to drink whiskey, etc., is almost as bad as to
give it to the baby directly, which would be to poison it.
9. To Both Parents.—You have now assumed the greatest
responsibility of your lives—to guard the body and train the mind of
your own child—and to do this, you must yourselves possess "a
healthy mind in a healthy body." Have you that?
"Most of us might be well, if we would. It is very much our
own fault that we are ill. We do those things which we ought not to
do, and we leave undone those things which we ought to have done
and then we wonder that there is no health in us."
C. S.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, West Ham.
The value of this visitation may be estimated by the summary of
M iss Heaviside's work from April 23rd to December 23rd:—
Streets visited 64
Houses „ 2,691
Persons „ 19,084
First visits 4,500
Second „ 282
Improvements 238
Houses with defects... 2,503
Houses with cases of illness 585
Miss R. E. Gardiner was equally active, but unfortunately has
been compelled to resign, on the score of ill-health, in the midst of her
work.