HOW TO EXAMINE A CHILD SUSPECTED TO BE ILL: (A) Look at the child. (B) Ask him how he feels. (C) If necessary, examine scalp, ears, face and skin generally. (D) Take his temperature. (Pulse will not help very much.) (E) Look at tongue and throat—if you can. (F) Feel glands in neck. (G) Examine any part complained about. Look him over in leisurely fashion. Notice his general appearance, the way he is made and covered, how he stands or sits, colour, etc. Does he look like an ill child? If so, what seems to be troubling him, and where? Ask him how he feels, quietly, sympathetically, firmly. Press your questions gently. He can often tell you quite a lot. Scalp For head lice, examine systematic fore and aft partings across the scalp. Nits, tiny specks firmly fixed to hairs, most easily seen behind the ears, are the eggs of the head louse. Ringworm of the scalp is indicated by circular scaly balding areas with broken-off hairs on them, usually near edge of scalp at the back. Swollen glands develop at the back of the head in German measles, with a rash and mild general upset. (Rash begins on face, scalp, and neck, and spreads downwards over the body and limbs.) Ears Discharge from the ear or earache should always receive medical attention. Face Face may show flush, pallor, anxiety, pain. Bloodstained discharge from the nose, and sore lip where it touches, often means a diphtheria carrier. Impetigo consists of yellow crusting on a sore and is very contagious. In mumps there is a tender swelling in front of the ears and behind the angles of the jaw, one or both sides. There is pain on opening mouth and temperature is usually raised, but not always. Skin Scabies is known as “the itch”. The itch is worst in bed at night. Rash occurs between the fingers, front of the wrists, inner side of the elbow, front fold of the armpits; perhaps also on the abdomen, buttocks, etc. Ringworm of the body is a circular rather itchy area with a slightly raised, reddish, blistery spreading edge, forming ring shapes.

AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE N.Z. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH The fly has a short life but a merry one. Flies believe in large families. It's nothing to Mrs. Fly to produce 120 eggs in a day and repeat the performance four to six times during her life of a few weeks. Meantime, her fickle mate is on the wing again for another fly-by-night conquest. FACTS ABOUT FLIES. Did you know that a fly flies at only 4½ miles an hour or about the pace a horse walks? Why then is he so maddeningly hard to swat? Because he has four thousand lenses for eyes: he's slicker than a jet plane — he can fly rapidly sideways, and, as if that weren't enough, his built-in radar detects the movement of your arm as it comes in to get him. THE ANSWER. Kill flies where they breed before they have a chance to reproduce millions of progeny, just one of which can carry on its tiny body, over 3,000,000 bacteria, and can spread over a flight area of 5 square miles, scores of infectious diseases. Some of these are tuberculosis, diarrhoea, food poisoning, undulant fever, conjunctivitis, “summer sickness,”, dysentery, typhoid, etc. His filthy habits of vomiting and constantly passing liquid waste, menace health. DOWN but not out— Millions upon millions of FLIES are waiting to take the place of the one just killed. Remember the use of insecticides is no substitute for the simple precautions everybody can, and should take, against the fly—through cleanliness, the proper disposal of house and garden garbage, and through keeping food covered. NEVER use insecticide spray where food is exposed.