of school children shows that in many instances
they breathe through the mouth because they cannot breathe properly or
sufficiently through the nose.

This may be due to bad habits in regard to keeping the nose clean, or,
in a majority of instances, to a growth which is known as "adenoids" and
which stops up the back of the nose. In either case, the air is not
breathed through the nose, and the child becomes what is known as a
"mouth breather."

Constant breathing through the mouth causes the child to become pale,
restless in its sleep and dull in its actions. The child often speaks as
though it had a cold in the head. Frequently there is an almost constant
discharge from the nose.

Mouth breathing renders a child especially liable to contract
tuberculosis and other infectious diseases; in fact, the child has very
little resistance to disease of any kind.

Every child should be given a handkerchief, and be taught to thoroughly
blow the nose several times each day. If, after doing this regularly,
the child is still unable to breathe properly through the nose, it is
probable that an adenoid growth is present. Such children should be
taken to the family physician or to a dispensary for further advice and
treatment.

Do not wait too long in the hope that the child will outgrow the
condition, for the effect of adenoid growths persisting throughout
childhood may injure the person for life.

Have your child's throat and nose examined one month after measles,
scarlet fever, or diphtheria.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CITY OF NEW YORK

Instructions to Parents on the Care of Children's Hair and Scalp

Children affected with vermin of the head are excluded from school. The
following directions will cure the condition:

Mix one-half pint of sweet oil and one-half pint of kerosene oil. Shake
the mixture well and saturate the hair with the mixture. Then wrap the
head in a large bath towel or rubber cap so that the head is entirely
covered; the head must remain covered from six to eight hours.

(Tincture of larkspur may be used instead of oil mixture. The directions
for use are the same.)

After removing the towel, the head should be shampooed as follows:

To two quarts of warm water add one teaspoonful of sodium carbonate
(washing soda). Wet the hair with this solution and then apply Castile
soap and rub the head thoroughly about ten minutes. Wash the soap out of
the hair with repeated washings of clear warm water. Dry th