CHILDREN — THREE PACTS WORTH KNOWING.
One—A child cannot rise its head on the pillow before the second month. 2.—A child cannot sit erect before the fifth month. 3.—A child cannot walk before the tenth month, and should walk at .the twelfth month. If the preceding facts could be borne in mind, and mothers be instructed as to just what a child can do and cannot do at certain periods of its early existence, then there would be less work for the orthopaedic surgeon. If the young- infant is allowed to sit or stand at too early an age the superincumbent weight of the large head tends at once to exaggerate the physiological curves of the spine to a point where they may become pathological.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 21 May 1913, Page 2
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