How to keep well in wartime
1943 1943 1940s 28 pages : illustrations HOW TO KEEP WELL IN WARTIME pursuing the child with "do's" and "don'ts". This only exhausts her and the child. Unfortunately some mothers have to go out to work to make ends meet and so have not the time t...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : His Majesty's Stationery Office
1943
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HOW TO KEEP WELL IN WARTIME pursuing the child with "do's" and "don'ts". This only exhausts her and the child. Unfortunately some mothers have to go out to work to make ends meet and so have not the time to give to their children. And in wartime there always arises a demand for labour of every kind, but the Government has refrained from directing mothers into war work and has left it to them to volunteer. Don't forget, to go to your doctor or the Child Welfare Clinic if you have doubts or anxieties about your child's health. Always to be tolerant and kind to a child does not mean that you should spoil him, and let him do what he likes. There is nothing worse than a spoilt child. But parents and guardians too rarely appeal to a child's reason. More often they act as "dictators" and think that "Do it because I tell you to" is a good enough reason. It is a thoroughly bad reason. A child has a very sharp sense of justice, and if you once behave unfairly to him he will soon find out and bear you a grudge. Of course it takes more time to reason with a child. But in the long run it pays to reason patiently and to be absolutely just in all your dealings with him. It is the example you set him that will speak louder than any words. 8. Fight Disease with Hygiene People have complained that some of the children evacuated from the slums were dirty and uncared for. The condition in which some of them had to live did not make it easy to be clean. But without cleanliness perfect health is not possible. There were two conditions that made doctors think people weren't so clean as they should be. The first was lousiness, and the second was scabies, or "the itch". In themselves the little beasts responsible for these conditions are unpleasant and cause a lot of discomfort and irritation to the person they attack. Irritation of the skin makes the patient scratch, and so sores begin. An itching skin often means a restless night and interference with sleep. But these pests can be more serious than this. There is a very dangerous disease called typhus, which during this war has been spreading in Europe. It has not been a serious problem in this country for something like 70 years. People catch typhus by being bitten by lice which have sucked the blood of a patient with typhus. So if a large number of people are lousy, one or two patients with typhus in their midst may start an epidemic of the disease. Parasites Succumb to Cleanliness. A louse is an insect without wings; but nevertheless it gets about with remarkable ease. Lice live on human blood. They bite through the skin of their victims, "spit" on the wound thus made, and then suck up the blood. Some 18
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