Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1869 — Sleeping under the Clothes. [ARTICLE]

Sleeping under the Clothes.

There is reason to believe (says .Miss Florence Nightingale) that not a few of tire apparently unaccountable cases of scrofula among children proceed from the habit of sleeping with the head under the bed-clothes, and so inhaling air already breathed, which is further, contaminated by exhalations from the akin. Patients are sometimes given to a similar habit; and it often happens that the bed-ClotheS are so 5 disposed that the patient must necessarily breathe air more or less contaminated by exhalations from the skin. A good nurse will be careful to attend to this. It is an important part, so to speak, of ventilation. It may be worth while to remark, that when there is any danger of bed-sores, a blanket should never fee placed under the patient. Never use anything, but light Whitney blanket and bea-covering for the sick. The heavy impervious cotton counterpane is bad, for the very reason that it keeps in the emanations from the sick person, while the blanket allows them to pass through. Weak patients tire Invariably distressed by a great weight of bedclothes, which often prevents their getting any sound sleep whatever. m ■ Tite French Government hasauthprieed Uie Frenoh Cable Compqhy to lay a wire ft-un Brert to England. e 'A