The breath of clean air is good at all times and under all circumstances, indispensable to the health of the child. The room should be broad and well-ventilated, in an elevated part of the house, and located so as to admit a free supply of air and light.
For the same reasons, the room where the infant sleeps should be large, and the air frequently renewed, as there is so detrimental to his health as sleeping in an impure and heated atmosphere. The practice, therefore, draw thick curtains closely round the bed is very pernicious, but only respond to a utility when they defend the infant from any draft of cold air.
The right time to take the baby in the open air must, of course, be determined by the season of the year, and the state of the weather. “A delicate infant born late in the fall are not usually benefit from being outdoors in this climate, during the spring, and if the rooms in which it is required are large often changed, and well ventilated, it does not suffer from confinement, as he will most probably, escape catarrhal affections, which are often the result of the poor infants exposure to a humid atmosphere and cold.
However, if the child is strong and healthy, should have lost the opportunity to take in the open air at stated periods, the daily experience shows that the most invigorating and bracing of influence on the system. As regards, however, must always be made to the state of the weather, and a condition of moisture in the atmosphere, the child should never be exposed because it is one of the most powerful stimulus of consumption causes the disease.
The nurse-maid, too, should not be allowed to linger and linger on, unnecessarily exposing the child, and for an excessive length of time, which is usually the source of all evil arising from taking the baby outdoors.