Children : their health, training, and education with valuable hints for young and old / by G.W. Bacon.

  • Bacon, G. W.
Date:
[between 1900 and 1909?]
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Credit: Children : their health, training, and education with valuable hints for young and old / by G.W. Bacon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SLEEP—BEDDING—LIGHT EOOMS. Foul air more injurious wMle sleeping, page 67—Close bedrooms a cause of premature decline and impurity of the blood, 67—Miss Nightingale’s hints on night air, 67—Position of child’s bed im- portant, 68—Feather beds highly objectionable, 68—Bedclothes, airing of, 68— Sound and prolonged sleep requisite for children, 69 —Evils of insufficient sleep, 69—Dr. Richardson’s hints on sleep, 69—Injury to children through evening parties, 70—Irregular and insufficient sleep shortens life, 70—Regular sleepers recover from sickness more readily, 70—How to secure sound sleep, 70—Mental excitement before bedtime objectionable, 71—Bedtime and evils of late hours, 71—Necessity of the midday nap, 72—Early rising when young fixes the habit for life, 72—E vils of lying too long in bed, 72 —Light and sunshine, 72—Absence of light the cause of scrofula, rickets, etc., 73—Much light conducive to the health of childreh,.v7^ South rooms preferable for nurseries, 73. ‘ Bedrooms, as elsewhere stated, must be well ventilated; for during sleep foul air is more injurious than during waking hours, even to those in good health, and especially to the young. Children should not be allowed to sleep to- gether, nor to sleep with old people; a child should always have a bed to itself, and a bed without curtains, for the purpose of keeping the head cool—a thing of greater im- portance than is generally supposed. If too many children sleep in one small, ill-ventilated room, premature decline will be the inevitable result. Sleeping in close rooms is a common cause of impurity of the blood, if not of scrofula. We have more than one authority for consider- ing that a vitiated atmosphere is of itself sufficient to generate scrofula. At any rate, there can be no doubt that its development is favoured by impure air where pre- disposition already exists. Night Air.—‘^An extraordinary fallacy,” says Miss Nightingale,, “is-the dread of night air. What air can wc
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