A BABY'S HEALTH EXHIBITION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 280, 7 August 1909, Page 11

A BABY'S HEALTH EXHIBITION.

There has just been held in Loudon a littlo exhibition which may prove suggestive to some of the societies' in Sydney interested in the care of mothers and- infants! ,-' The "Infants' Health Exhibition "■ if was called, and'its object; as its namedenotes,.was'to 1 show what is necessary to the :.welfarq of. a' baby. Literature was distributed'on hygiene;' infant management, and the special feeding of children, but the'most interesting part"of the' exhibition was where clever inexpensive contrivances for the baby's comfort and the' mother's well-being were shown. ' ■The most-prominent exhibit was' a bed in readiness for a mother, showing how • it should be prepared. A useful detail was a set of bed traces, fastoued ,to "the foot of the} bed, and of convenient length for the patient to raise herself. AVhile attached to tie traces w;as a whistle," a very neces'sarV thing in a house not provided witlibclls. By the.side of 'the bed'was'.a cot, niade from, a fruit case, which had cost twopence-.' One side of the box.and' thp wooden 'partitions had been removed, and from'.the'wood': was made a pair of projecting amis, : which' extended from' thb bottom of the cot. so as to rest on the* framework of the mother's'bed," and the rest' of the wopcT formed two "legs on thb far side of the cot. -It was. covered with pink-glazed, calico,. and 'part of a muslin' skirt. The mattress and ,pillow'were filled with chaff—a soft hygienic, substance which' js'renewablo at a trifling cost, and instead-of. expensive macintosh the mattress' was spread with damp-proof paper..' . '.;' ' ' : \ . Another cot .was* ( niade from' a ■'", banana' crato at a cost of ls'.-2}d.,.and'as the'pretty muslin.drapery.was the \yorJi of.a,girl of 12;, there .seems, to .be no. reason.why children should bo. overlain .through lack."of, a separate ..cot'. ,A baby's-cupboard was also mado from a fruit-..case turned on ,-its .end, lined' with clean paper, and protected from the (lust by a calico curtain; a clothesrhorso. ' covered with a.most effective,screen;' -and,a', stono,ginger-bceivbottlo-was,shown, as'an inexpensive hot-water.,bottle u for,a baby's cot, or perambulator. ,". ' - ''"'."' The approved boat-shaped feeding-bottle was seen floating in water, as it should bb. when not in use. A jug of milk was shown with a protecting cover of not;, weighted with whilo.a "dummy" . was held tip to contumely, /under- the ; name- of 1 "baby's enemy." A woman doc'tor' pointed out the. evils' of this article;'aiid several''babies'who' arrived sucking their "comforters" left the exhibition' Without them.'". ' ' . '•■' '"'■"<'