The claims of the coming generations : a consideration by various writers / arranged by Sir James Marchant.
- Date:
- 1923
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: The claims of the coming generations : a consideration by various writers / arranged by Sir James Marchant. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![^ 24 CLAIMS OF THE COMING GENERATION of children under English conditions of life, depends on whether they can be saved during early life from excessive doses of tubercle bacilli. With each added year of life occasional exposure to presumably smaller doses of infection reduces the proclivity to tuberculosis, and the problem, therefore, for the children of consumptive parents is one of segregation of the infective patient from the younger children, or of the children from the parent, until greater power of resistance to infection has become established. Short of such segregation, a rigid line of conduct on the part | of the consumptive himself minimises risk. The | avoidance of caressing, the protection of children from handling articles which have become con¬ taminated on the floor, and like precautions, would go far to reduce this serious cause of child mortality. The prevention of acute catarrhs, often fol¬ lowed by pneumonia, is one of the most difficult problems of childhood. Adults with catarrhs ] indiscreetly expose their fellows to infection. 1 Coughing, sneezing, and shaking hands after using a handkerchief, successfully spread these catarrhs. Where young children are concerned,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18028044_0037.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
