Excerpt from The Road to Health Is the baby nursed at the breast as he should be? Is he kept clean? Does he get plenty of fresh air and is he kept out of the hot, stuffy kitchen? Do you know that bottle babies should have orange juice each day after the first month? Do you know that flies and mosquitoes carry disease, and do you keep them out of your house by proper screening? Do you know that all colds are catch ing and may lead to dangerous disease in others, especially children? Do you know that sickness is often spread by dirty hands? Do you always wash your hands before eating or handling food? When any of your family is ill with scar let fever, measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, or other preventable diseases, 18 your health officer always notified so that he can help to keep the disease from spreading to others? 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.