TALKS ON HEALTH.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1819, 15 June 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)

TALKS ON HEALTH.

(By a family TJqctoi-.) N SOTJItoES OF DANGER.

■ If y bit/have one source of infection anywhere you are exposing all, ; the Organs of the body to a grave risk. • If a child has inflamed tonsils or adenoids,' through" these gateways tubercle bacilli may find and when once they are hi, who can tell where they will finally lodge? They may find a. resting place in the brain, and the child may be fatally attacked by tuberculous meningitis; they may settle in the hip-join*, and make th° child a cripple for lite. It surprised you when your doctor, alter examming tho hip, looked most carefully at the child's throat. may .have .exclaimed, "What on earth have the tonsils got to do with the hip-joint?" But I hope now you have understood how each part is dependant an every other part; and you must not in the future no J when I. so strenuously ins -» ..r, j ~

. ( having clean mouths and healthy [ throats and well-ordered insides. If you have grasped this principle of infection from a source, you have not read this column in vain. BEST FOOD FOR INFANTS. ! The only real food lor an infant is \ moment's thought , „•:> you of it.' The uni- ,.

[ verse is so well arranged ;t 1 Himnn body is such a maivel; tho t\ v eye, tlie brain, and all t of the body are such marvf of living mechanism —how ; demands of the growing I forgotten or arranged on . . plan? Of mothei the o best. Do not be pu something that is "just as

inquiry was carried out in a large town in France into, the health, of a I thousand babies. The babies were : divided into two 'groups, those who had been nursed by their mothers and those who had been brought, up on some substitute. It was conclusively proved that the mothers' babies were ■much"healthier than .the chemist's shop babies. ■■■ „-. , , .■;; _ :^VAiV"^^^