PRECAUTION FOR HEALTH
If children were taken to see the doctor more often when healthy, they would not need to bo taken so often when ill. Mothers who take their children regularly to the dentist are still too -shy to take them to the doctor. “There is nothing the matter with the child, and the doctor will only laugh at me,” is tlieir attitude. Only a very foolish doctor would laugh. The most serious illnesses have small beginnings. It is not a lay person’s business to recognise these, it is the doctor’s. The apparently quite healthy child may yet need attention to a carious tooth, the 1 beginning of tonsilitis and adenoids, some slight abnoramlity _of posture or gait and advice on feeding. These are very small matters, but they have large consequences. It is not too much to say that attention to these in childhood may eliminate nine-tenths of the heart and lung . disease at present so prevalent, and . add many years to the hi© of the average person* !Xhe sensible mother r
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12538, 30 August 1926, Page 5
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