A hand-book of nursing for family and general use.

Date:
[1878], ©1878
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Credit: A hand-book of nursing for family and general use. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When you are obliged to use such a heating apparatus as may be already in your house, see that the flue for Binoke is tightly fitted and in good order; that cellar air is in no way introduced into your rooms; that pans of water are set to evaporate in the air-chamber of the fur- nace or mouths of the registers; that all the fireplaces there may be in the house are kept open, and that the windows are regularly opened to air the rooms daily. Malaria. It is not necessary to look upon serious illness as simply a visitation of Providence, or having called it malaria, to feel that you have gone to the bottom of the subject. Go to the bottom of your own, or your neighbor's swill- pail, or other foul receptacle for garbage and rubbish, examine your drains, etc., and never rest until you have satisfied yourself that your own want of intelligent over- sight of sanitary arrangements inside and outside your house is not to blame for the diphtheria, dysentery, or typhoid fever. If your own premises are in order, sus- pect your neighbor of being to blame for the evil, and try to rouse his attention to it. Girls at boarding-schools. In a few of our colleges and schools for girls the health of the pupils is carefully considered in their education, but as a general thing too much is taken for granted by instructors, who naturally give their chief attention to classes and recitations. It is needless to say that every part of a school building requires as constant and systematic care as to cleanliness, ventilation, and disinfecting as any private house. In- deed, such care is more necessary in the first case than in the second, for careless young people and servants will 22