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Children well and happy

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS
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This manual offers practical instruction for adolescent girls on maintaining personal and household health and on caring for infants. It covers posture, skin and dental care, home sanitation, newborn and feeding practices, clothing, habits and training, emergency procedures, and infant nutrition and hygiene, with appendices on organizing health classes and recipes. Emphasis is placed on establishing lifelong health habits, teaching safe feeding methods, and preparing schoolgirls to support child welfare through demonstrations, illustrations, and clear procedures. Advice is presented in plain, actionable steps aimed at prevention, routine care, and early response to common problems.

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
Motherhood Frontispiece
Correct Posture when Standing 2
Wrong Way to carry Schoolbooks 5
Right Way to carry Schoolbooks 5
Section of the Skin 7
The Correct Kind of Toothbrush 9
Ideal Ventilation 20
The Baby’s Bed 34
Model Birth Certificate 36
Weighing the Baby 44
Modification of the Milk 49
Pasteurizing the Baby’s Milk 53
Homemade Refrigerator 56
Filling the Baby’s Bottles 57
Testing the Temperature of the Milk 60
Correct Way to Hold the Baby while Feeding 61
Bathing the Baby 64
Baby Clothes 72
Nose and Throat Passages—Normal and abnormal 80
Baby Exercising 86
Child brushing his Teeth 90
Bath Thermometer 95
Protecting the Baby from his Mother’s Cold 99