The respiration of a pure air is at any time, and under all circumstances, essential to the fitness of the child. The nursery so should be enormous, well ventilated, in an elevated part of the house, and so situated as to confess a free supply both of air and light.
For a similar reasons, the room in which the child sleeps should be giant, and the air often renewed ; for nothing is so unjust to its health as sleeping in an impure and heated atmosphere. The practice,, of drawing thick curtains closely round the bed is highly pernicious ; they only answer a helpful purpose when they protect the child from any draught of cold air. The correct time for taking the child into the open air must, naturally, be determined by the season of the year, and the state of the weather. Regard must be had to the state of the weather ; and to a moist condition of the atmosphere the child should not be exposed, as it is one of the most robust exciting reasons behind consumptive illness.
The nurse-maid, too, shouldn’t be permitted to loiter and linger about, therefore exposing the infant pointlessly, and for an unwarranted period of time ; this is in generally the source of all of the evils which accumulate from taking the honey into the open air.