Show YOU MUST NOT KISS THE BABY WOMAN PHYSICIAN POINTS OUT DANGER TO INFANTS should be guarded against too affectionate lection ate attentions as carefully as against measles or whooping cough story of infant that died new york july 1 I never kiss a baby on the mouth it is criminal says a woman physician in one of the womans comans hospitals in the city AI 1 know or of no more injurious thing than the kissing of a babas mouth she declares for from experience I 1 know that many diseases are transmitted to little ones by their parents or others touching their lips A mother should guard her infants just as closely from kisses RS as from measles whooping cough etc tor for though grown persons do not as a rule have bare any ally of the diseases to which children are susceptible and so do not give them to the little ones such A as they frequently have are chronic and for that reason much worse it if contracted through the breath by young babes BABY DIES FROM KISSES 1 I had one case where a 1 newly born child dies as the result of a kiss it was but a few days old when a nurse caring for the mother kissed it on the lips and the next day she developed scarlet fever I 1 took every precaution to prevent the little one from coming down with the same disease but to no purpose for it had a most severe attack lind and died in less than a week from the time its lips were kissed 1 I alvas advise mot mothers tiers against allowing thir little ones to be kissed on the lips even by their parents and immediate family A babas mouth should not be kissed I 1 contend and if this rule were strictly followed there would be fewer sick infants formic robes would not then be transmitted to them I 1 warn against any kind of caress on the face head or hands CHILDREN EMBRACED TOO HARD 1 I in fact il bilee il that young children alren should lie be shown all possible tenderness der ness but not kissed and caressed they do not understand it and frequently quent i itly ly I 1 have bare seen them made most uncomfortable by being squeezed close in the mothers arms and halt half smothered by kisses on oil the lips biown persons do not often realize how hard they are pressing the little bodies in their arms until the infants cry out with pain and then they frighten the youngsters by suddenly kissing hissing them all over the face in an effort to show how sorry they are because the little one cried I 1 wish I 1 could make mothers fathers and nurses realize that they can best show their love for a young baby by touching it as little as possible |