nd whitewashed every spring, your drains
cleaned with strong solution of copperas or chloride of lime, poured down
them once a week. Keep your gutters and yards clean and insist upon your
neighbors doing the same.

_EVACUATIONS OF A CHILD._

The healthy motion varies from light orange yellow to greenish yellow, in
number, two to four times daily. Smell should never be offensive. Slimy
mucous-like jelly passages indicate worms. Pale green, offensive, acrid
motions indicate disordered stomach. Dark green indicate acid secretions
and a more serious trouble.

Fetid dark brown stools are present in chronic diarrhoea. Putty-like pasty
passages are due to acidity curdling the milk or to torpid liver. {323}

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_BREAST MILK._

7. Breast milk is the only proper food for infants, until after the second
summer. If the supply is small keep what you have and feed the child in
connection with it, for if the babe is ill this breast milk may be all that
will save its life.

_STERILIZED MILK._

8. Milk is the best food. Goat's milk best, cows milk next. If the child
thrives on this _nothing else_ should be given during the hot weather,
until the front teeth are cut. Get fresh cow's milk twice a day if the
child requires food in the night, pour it into a glass fruit jar with
one-third pure water for a child under three months old, afterwards the
proportion of water may be less and less, also a trifle of sugar may be
added.

Then place the jar in a kettle or pan of cold water, like the bottom of an
oatmeal kettle. Leave the cover of the jar loose. Place it on the stove and
let the water come to a boil and boil ten minutes, screw down the cover
tight and boil ten minutes more, then remove from the fire, and allow it to
cool in the water slowly so as not to break the jar. When partly cool put
on the ice or in a cool place, and keep tightly covered except when the
milk is poured out for use. The glass jar must be kept perfectly clean and
washed {324} and scalded carefully before use. A tablespoonful of lime
water to a bottle of milk will aid indigestion. Discard the bottle as soon
as possible and use a cup which you know is clean, whereas a bottle must be
kept in water constantly when not in use, or the sour milk will make the
child sick. Use no tube for it is exceedingly hard to keep it clean, and if
pure milk cannot be had, condensed milk is admirable and does not need to
be sterilized as the above.

_DIET._

9.