Untitled

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1 October 1918, Page 3

One of tbe dangers of influenza, says a specialist in an exchange, is a premature return to duty. It pays to take three days to get your strength back. The days arc not lost if they are epent in a sensible attempt to'cultivate health. A special watch should be kept for cough, spitting of phlegm, or a pain in the side, and a doctor's advice must be sought if any of these signs persist. Fresn air is one of the finest antidotes to influenza arid every other form of disease. The garden makes the best sick-room when the days are warm. Place the chair in the sunniest spot; put a blanket, spread open, on the chair; then let the patieut sit down and wrap tho blanket round him. Hβ will come to no harm, so long as he is kept warm. The last thing we want the influenza patient to d'j is to breathe his own infected air over and over again. If it is impossible to get the convalescent patient into the air, keep the ventilation of the room as sweet, as you con. Once or twice in. tho day cover up tho patient warmly and open every door cud window in the. room so that fresh flir cau TuSh. .through every corner of the room. Breathed air is exhausted air; exhausted air gives death, not life.

When everyone is paying well-merit-ed compliments to tho new Food Controller, Mrs. ClynoH, though she Lias more than her nwdest husband's <'isliko for the limelight, ought not, to' be forgotten. In recent years, since Mr. Clynes has been so constantly involved in Parliamentary affairs, the very necessary duty of "nursing" the constituency, has" fallen practically in its entirety upon Mrs. Clynes and ner (hufihter, a slightly-built joung woman, who bpn.rs a remarkable resemblance to her father. Mrs. dynes is an Irishwoman, homely and shrewd as an Irishwoman would be who had spent, so many years in intimate _ association with the Lancashire working classes; and if she is not thoroughly confidentwhen making, speeches, she has th.o natural gift of her rnce for saying happy things upon occasion.