pplies with even greater force to infants and children.
During his first month especially a baby is susceptible to draughts;
nevertheless, the room should be well ventilated and its temperature
kept between 68 deg. and 70 deg. F. during the day, and at about 65 deg.
F. at night. Even in cold weather the room should be well aired two or
three times a day; the baby should be removed to another room while the
windows are open. After the baby is three or four months old the windows
may be left open at night provided the outside temperature does not fall
below freezing. A healthy baby two or three weeks old may be taken
out-of-doors for a short time in mild weather; when he is three months
old he may be taken out-of-doors even in winter on bright sunny days.
The time spent out-of-doors should be gradually increased until the baby
stays out the greater part of the day; but he should not be exposed to
storms, wind, flying dust, dampness, extremes of temperature, or
insects. The eyes should not be covered by veils, but they should be
shielded from the direct rays of the sun at all times.

DIET.--A baby, in order to thrive, must have suitable food, given at
regular intervals. During the first few months of life no other food
can take the place of mother's milk. Breast-fed babies are more robust
than bottle-fed babies; more than this, they are less likely to contract
infectious diseases or to suffer from digestive disorders. The number of
bottle-fed babies who die every year is three times as great as the
number of breast-fed babies who die. Many mothers do not understand the
risk involved in weaning small babies; and so every year many little
lives are lost, and lost needlessly. When poverty forces nursing mothers
to wean their babies and seek work outside their homes, one can only say
that a society which tolerates such a waste of infant life is indeed
regardless of its own welfare.

Special conditions, of course, may make it undesirable for a mother to
nurse her baby. No one but the physician is competent to decide this;
not even neighbors, grandmothers, other members of the family, or the
mother herself. Where artificial feeding must be used, it should be
carefully adapted to the individual child, and in consequence it must be
prescribed by the doctor. Patent foods, notwithstanding the claims on
their printed labels, should be used only under his advice.

INTERVALS OF FEEDING.--Little milk is secreted during the first two da