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Advice to Mothers on General health
and feeding of Infants.
IN this pamphlet will be found some hints on how to
preserve health in general. It also contains some advice
to mothers on the care and feeding of infants, and on the
precautions that should be taken to ward off sickness in
general, but more especially the ailments of infants and those
infectious diseases that are so common amongst young children.
Of the hundreds of infants under one year of age who die
every year in Edmonton, many might be spared to grow up
into useful citizens if parents knew more about the causes of
such disease as Summer Diarrhoea, for instance, and how to
prevent it. Many directions that will be found useful on this
matter are given in the following pages.
Such diseases as Measles and Whooping-cough not only
cause a large number of deaths in the year, but, because some
mothers think they are not serious illnesses, many children are
not properly looked after during their attacks, and the complications
that often arise through this neglect, cause the
constitution to be undermined and the child to grow up delicate
and unfit for the battle of life.
Every sensible mother, therefore, who is anxious to
preserve her little ones' health, and to give them the very best
chance of growing up to be strong and healthy men and
women, will do all she can to gain knowledge on these subjects,
and will carry out the rules of health that she has learnt as
faithfully as possible.
N.B.—The directions given in this pamphlet are not intended, to
apply where children are ordered special diet or treatment
by a doctor.