Show I I HOW OW TO PREVENT AND TREAT V VACATION ILLS liLLS i I Things You boas Ought to Know About Saving having Life The summer vacation season bringing inestimable benefits to in health and pleasure also reaps a heavy toll toIl in illness and deaths To help reduce this toll THE TELEGRAM has secured from Uncle Sams Sam's experts in the United States public health service information regarding treatment of vacation ills and the handling of accidents Lockjaw sunburn sunstroke dog doe bite and drowning are treated in ill the he following fallowing advice prepared especially for TELEGRAM readers Thorn There sra are insen instances Inca nn on record of of en apI ap- I I drowned persons being re- re re 1 An effort should be made therefore to revive a patient ct den clen en I after a considerable time in the water If there is mud and water in the mouth it should first be bo cleaned out Water Yater should be drained from the throat ard arid lungs by clasping pa patient patient patient pa- pa tient around the waist and hol holding him up for a few seconds 1 f Artificial respiration is the next step S Several veral methods are po possible sible but if there is only one person to perform I Ithe the operation the patient should be I laid on the ground face down with the I head resting on the crook of the elbow face turned on the side Kneeling astride the body the operator operator operator oper oper- ator places the palms of the hands on the short ribs across the small of the back with thumbs nearly together Letting his weight fall on his wrists by bending the body forward decreases the size of the patients patient's chest and ex expels expels expels ex- ex air from the lungs Pressure then being released the elastic chest springs opt oit and air is thus drawn into the lungs The movement should be repeated ata at ata I a rate of not faster than fifteen to eighteen times a minute timing liming with a watch if possible Whatever method of artificial respiration is used should he be kept ept up for at least an hour and a half kalf Ammonia on a sponge or handkerchief handkerchief handkerchief chief put under but not on the pa patients patient's patients patient's patients patient's pa- pa tient's nose for a few seconds may help revive him The patient should be covered with coat or blanket while artificial respiration proceeds As soon as he begins himself to breathe his limbs should be rubbed toward the heart under the blankets A physician should always be called at once to treat drowning cases If a with operator Is available It should be used but in the hands of an amateur such apparatus may mar be more dangerous than useful |