Hints to mothers for the management of health during the period of pregnancy and in the lying-in-room ; with an exposure of popular errors in connection with those subjects and hints upon nursing.
- Thomas Bull
- Date:
- 1877
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hints to mothers for the management of health during the period of pregnancy and in the lying-in-room ; with an exposure of popular errors in connection with those subjects and hints upon nursing. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![great measure, perliaps entirely, the diseases of impure air. ^ The site may be in fault; and from a moist and malarious soil, excess of water and organic emanations may pass into the house. Or ventilation may be imper- fect, and the exhalations of a crowded po]3ulation may accumulate and putrefy; or the excretions may remain in or near the house; or a general uncleanliness, from want of water, may cause a persistent contamination of the air. Thus, then, the following conditions will insure a healthy habitation :— 1. A site dry and not malarious, and an aspect which gives light and cheerfulness. 2. A ventilation which carries off all respii'atory impurities. 3. A system of immediate and perfect sewage removal, which shall render it impossible for the air to be contaminated from excreta. 4. A pure supply and proper removal of water, by means of which perfect cleanliness of all parts of the house can be insured. 5. A construction of the house, which shall insure perfect dryness of the foundation, walls, and roof. In other words, perfect purity and cleanliness of the air are the objects to be attained. Up to a certain point, there is no difficulty in in- suring that a small house shall be as healthy as a large one. The site and foundations can be as dry, the drains as well arranged, the walls and roof can be as sound, and the water-supply as good as a house of much larger rental. And, no doubt, small houses will have to be as carefully built as larger ones, so soon as occupiers busy themselves with matters of hygiene, and show, when looking into a house, that they are con- ' Dr. Parkes, Practical Hygiene, 4th edition, p. 323.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21044442_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
