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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 2

ISSUE D B Y THE NEW ZEALAND DE PT. 0F HEALTH Iow do YoU slp? One third of the 24 hours each day If sleep won'� come let your- should be spent in bed . Every adulc self g0 limp, loosen up every normally needs eight hours' sleep. muscle, and relax body, and Children need more-~under 5 mind A short walk before Years, 12 hours' sleep ; from 6 to bedtime, 2 glass of hot milk I Years, 1 hours ; from 12 to or cocoa, a warm bath; are 14 Years, 10 hours ; from 15 to all aids to sleep. I7 years, 9 hours: Sound healthy sleep takes the Insufficient sleep is a major cause load off the heart and the of malnutrition in children. Ic lungs, and enables the body produces an irritable child who to renew worn-out tissue loses weight; becomes sickly PRESCRIPTION FOR SLEEP Regular bedtime: When putting baby Dark, quiet and well-ventilated to sleep in his cot sec bedroom: that the lower elbow is forward and that Bedclothes not too heavy. there is complete Avoid heavy: suppers before freedom of move- bedtime: ment from the shoulders down. Unless there is a special reason for it, the use of drugs to induce sleep should be strenuously avoided.