How to live: A manual of hygiene for use in the schools of the Philippine islands

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Adeline Knapp. How to live: A manual of hygiene for use in the schools of the Philippine islands

How to live: A manual of hygiene for use in the schools of the Philippine islands

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. THE HUMAN BODY

QUESTIONS

CHAPTER II. THE STORY OF WATER

QUESTIONS

CHAPTER III. ABOUT FOOD

QUESTIONS

CHAPTER IV. ALL AROUND THE HOUSE

QUESTIONS

CHAPTER V. OUR OWN SELVES

QUESTIONS

CHAPTER VI. PUBLIC HYGIENE

QUESTIONS

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Adeline Knapp

Published by Good Press, 2021

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The Wrong Way to Carry a Baby.

In this country, where nearly all weights are carried on the head, we rarely see a man who does not carry his head and shoulders well. He learns in childhood to keep his shoulders even and to hold his head up. But there is one custom of the country which prevents the people from walking well. This is the practice of carrying little children on the hip. It is bad for the children, as it strains the muscles of the lower part of the back, and bends the soft little bones so that they do not grow straight as they naturally would. It is bad, too, for the person who carries the child. The body is thrown to one side, the weight of the child presses the soft organs of the abdomen downward, and the effect is often serious. It is very bad indeed for one child to carry another this way. Babies should be carried in the arms, as European children are.

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