How to keep well in wartime
1943 1943 1940s 28 pages : illustrations HOW TO KEEP WELL IN WARTIME were immunized against it. It is the best present you can give your child on his or her first birthday, but every child between one and fifteen should be protected. Occasionally it does not give complete protection, but if a child...
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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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28 pages : illustrations
HOW TO KEEP WELL IN WARTIME were immunized against it. It is the best present you can give your child on his or her first birthday, but every child between one and fifteen should be protected. Occasionally it does not give complete protection, but if a child incompletely protected is infected the attack is usually much milder. Doctors have spent years and years in finding the best stuff and the best ways in which to use it. They have now got it, and that being so you should take advantage of it to save illness and lives, and also the services of the doctors and nurses, so urgently needed for war purposes. Another disease of children against which inoculation is being perfected is whooping-cough. If you have a child or children not immunized against diphtheria, have it done now by your family doctor, or by arrangement with the Health Department at your local Council's Offices, which will do it free of charge. Don't let your children go through the winter exposed to the risk of this infection. Prevention is better than cure. 10. Help Yourself to be Well You are saved from all sorts of infections and poisonings by an elaborate Public Health Service which you hardly ever hear of until something goes wrong. Your food and water are kept pure by a system of inspection, regulation, and control that tries — and very successfully — to prevent any harm coming to you. There are free welfare centres to help mothers, expectant mothers, and children to keep fit. Many Approved Societies will help you with the cost of glasses and with dentists' fees; if you need these things, see if your Society will help you to obtain them. But you are asked to do something yourself as well — not for somebody else's benefit but for your own. By helping yourself to keep well and free from infection you are, of course, helping other people at the same time. What you think and how you think about your health is important. Obviously no one who is always brooding over disease can really feel well or be well, even though his organs are perfectly sound. In just the same way, a person who is ill, or has some physical disability, will feel better if he makes the most of what health he has got than one who gives in to his disability. And so, too, the man who thinks in terms of health and healthy living will feel better and fitter than the man who thinks in terms of disease. Don't think that taking thought about yourself is morbid, "unhealthy". The human body is a marvellous piece of construction. The human mind is a most delicately adjusted mechanism. And this war has shown us once more that both are, at the same time, amazingly tough. But the young men who won the Battle of Britain did 22
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