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Excerpt from Notes on the Care of Infants Attention to the hygiene of the nursery, is as import ant as the proper care of the infant itself, if you wish to bring up a healthy child. Whenever it is possible a child should have a day nursery as well as a night nurs ery it should not be confined to the same room day and night; The nursery should be thoroughly aired two or three times a day. During the summer months there is ordinarily plenty of fresh air, but in winter, the nursery is liable to become foul. The common practice of dry ing napkins in the nursery is very reprehensible. Ir dependent of the dampness, the odor of urine given out from the napkins contaminates the air, and renders it very unwholesome and offensive. The soiled nap kins, even those wet with urine, should never remain in the nursery a moment. One rule should positively be observed, always put on a fresh clean napkin, and never, under any circumstance, one that has been simply dried after it has been used, without having been washed. The defective hygienic condition in which a child is placed, will naturally influence its chances of life. Re member that fresh pure air with plenty of sunlight is as important as wholesome food. The nursery should be the sunniest and healthiest room in the house. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.