YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW!
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How! By JANE STAFFORD WITH the opening of schools, many boys and girls who had Summer jobs will continue to work in after-school hours. Parents should make sure that the hours...
...Most states have laws regulating the hours of work for children up to 16 years of age...
...They picked up the germs, usually, from milk or water that had been contaminated, or from swimming in polluted water...
...Every supervisor can keep a constant check on physical conditions and work practices, calling the former to the attention of management for correction and taking up the latter with the workers...
...During the years of adolescence, growth speeds up and the boy and girl are under the added emotional strain of growing into manhood and womanhood...
...For the nation there will be a monthly gain of 2,000,000 more days of work to speed the end of the war and get going on production of new automobiles, radios, refrigerators, and the like for peacetime living...
...The best way to break up a bad habit in a child is to keep the child so busy with interesting things to do that he forgets the old habit...
...At least 10 hours of sleep out of each 24 are advised by the U. S. Children's Bureau for the average girl or boy of 13 to 15 years...
...It makes everyone nervous and irritable and leads to more naughtiness on the child's part...
...A million fewer accidents in industrial plants during the last six months of this year and the first six months of next year is the goal management and labor are asked to shoot for in a new safety campaign...
...How the 40 per cent reduction in accidents is to be accomplished will vary in detail with the different jobs men and women are working at...
...They need more sleep than their slightly younger brothers and sisters...
...The reward will be life to 7,500 workers who otherwise might die in an accident on the job, whole bodies to 44,000 who otherwise would be crippled in some way, and a saving in temporary incapacity to 948,500 others...
...Typhoid carriers should not cook or otherwise handle food for other persons, because of the danger of some of their germs getting into the food...
...Every worker can learn the safe way to do his job, can continually do his work in that way, can be faithful in his use of safety equipment," and can help check on physical conditions...
...Drinking only pasteurized milk and cream, boiling drinking water unless the supply is approved by the health department, and swimming only at places that have health department approval, are ways .to avoid vacation typhoid and other diseases that may be spread through water or milk...
...High school boys and girls need more sleep than is generally realized by the older children, themselves, or by their parents...
...Keep your promises, good or bad...
...Even at 16 and 17 years, nine or 10 hours of sleep are advisable...
...This matter of speaking quietly to children is one of the points stressed in a publication of the U. S. Children's Bureau, Are You Teaching Your Child To Be Happy...
...Others are: Tell and act the truth to your children...
...Decide which things are most important for a child to do and then be consistent about seeing that he does them...
...The combined hours of school and work should not exceed eight per day or 48 per week, the Children's Bureau advises...
...Do not say "No" one time and "Yes" the next time for the same thing...
...The general principles, however, will be the same everywhere...
...The U. S. Department of Labor sums them up as follows: "Every employer and manager can set up an efficient safety organization, can make sure that all hazardous conditions, machinery, and processes are guarded, and can train his supervisors in safety functions...
...Children, however, can be taught to obey the first time an order is given, and speaking quietly to them is much better for the child and the parent...
...Too Much Noise Many parents make' the mistake of thinking they must talk to their children in a loud, angry voice in order to get obedience...
...As a result, there is apt to be much noise in the home, which is bad for both children and grown-ups...
...Do not nag him about little things that do not matter very much...
...Guarding Against Typhoid Fever Typhoid fever cases usually increase at the end of the Summer season...
...Parents should make sure that the hours spent on the job plus the hours spent at school do not add up to so many that sleep, study, and recreation are skimped...
...These may not, however, take into account the hours spent at school work in addition to the job...
...Usually the health department knows the typhoid carriers in a community and watches to see that they do not work in restaurants, boarding houses and the like...
...A generation ago, doctors spoke of "vacation typhoid," because so many cases developed in persons who had been away for the Summer...
Vol. 8 • September 1944 • No. 37
