Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1882 — Eatables for the siok. [ARTICLE]

Eatables for the siok.

A writer in Land and water cautions nurses and attendants against the tooc mmon practice of milk, blancmanges, jellies, and other delicacis and foods uncovered in the sick room. He reminds the reader that milk in the larder will keep meat from spelling by absoring the bacteria and atmospheric impurities which would otherwise affect the meat. This caution is mftoh needed. The emanations from the > bodies nr sick people are often vitiating if not infectuous. The sick-room can haruly have as pure air as apartments occu£ied by people in health, and the lat*r are too often confined and poorly ventilated. Leaving food of any description in a sleeping-room of occupants sick or well, unless securely covered, is a bad practice. If it be intended for an invalid it may convey the seeds of disease rather than the elements of nutrition, and if transfered to the table may Injuriously affect the whole family. As a rule, articles which have been standing in the stokroom should be thrown to the waste. In cases of contagious diseases it is advised to burn the clothing which has been worn by the sufferer of used for bedding. When this is notdtaia through disinfection is recommended. As food dioinfection is, hardly to be thought of, let all such artioles as have been exposed at the bedsid of the sick be dumped the gafbßge or swill-barrel. Dr. Foote’S Health Monthly. John Shriver was the excessively jealous lover of Lillie Cross of Philadelphia. One evening she went to the minstrels with another fellow, and John sat moodily in her parlor until she returned, when he fvriously upraided her. She resorsed that she would never marry him. That was interded to quiet him, but it had the opposite effect. He shot her and himself. If they get well, and John is not sent to prison, they will be sweethearts again, for the girl promises never to go to a show with anybody elce, and he admits that he acted too hastily.