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17. Milk storage and milk utensils. Condensed milk.
18. Cheap and nutritious foods for nursing mothers and for
weaned babies.
19. Foods unsuitable for babies.
20. Thrush—its prevention and treatment. Flowers of sulphur.
Vaseline. Soot. Borax and honey.
21. Diarrhoea in babies. Its causes, prevention and treatment.
Distribute and explain the appropriate leaflet.
22. Measles and its complications. Distribute and explain
the leaflet.
23. Bronchitis and pneumonia. "Influenza colds." Prevention
and treatment.
24. Consumption of the lungs. Direct and indirect infection.
Direct by coughing, spitting, kissing. Indirect by bedfellow,
dried sputum, dust, feeding utensils, dry sweeping, dry
dusting, the moistening of dummies and comforters.
Preventive measures: Separate room; separate bedroom;
separate bed; separate utensils; separate cleansing;
fresh air; sunshine; nutritious foods; hot milk; eggs.
Distribute and explain the leaflets on "Consumption"
and on "Disinfection after Tuberculosis."
25. Rickets—its prevention and treatment.
26. 27. Popular errors—two lectures.
28. Why babies cry.
29. Convulsions and overlying.
30. The feeding of older children.
In addition to the lectures, or in place of them, practical demonstrations
are given at the Weighing Centres on the following
subjects. In this connection, arrangements are made occasionally
for mothers to prepare poultices and fomentations and to do
elementary bandaging.