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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
See doctor if child is not well. 
Feedings 
Children from birth to five months should be fed every 
three hours. 
Children over one and a half years old need three 
meals a day, dinner in the middle of the day. 
Little children need to be kept very quiet. No con- 
fusion or loud noises around them. They will then 
grow better and stronger. 
Colds 
Never neglect a cold. Do not “pass it on” to a child 
by coughing, sneezing, talking or breathing into its face. 
Do not kiss anyone when you have a cold. Never allow 
the handkerchief used by a person with a cold to touch 
a child. If you must handle a child when you have a 
cold, wear a piece of gauze over your mouth and nose, 
and be sure to keep your hands clean. Be very careful 
with the handkerchiefs used ; see that no one touches 
or uses them. It is preferable to use gauze or soft 
paper for handkerchiefs and burn them. When a child 
has a cold put it to bed. Keep quiet as long as there 
is any fever. Give a cathartic, such as castor oil, as 
soon as cold appears. Reduce the child’s diet and give 
plenty of drinking water. Consult a doctor. Do not let 
the child go out until thoroughly well. 
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3. THE FIRST AIDE IN ACCIDENTS AND 
EMERGENCIES 
General Rules 
The sorrow and unhappiness of the world is increas- 
ed enormously every year by injury and loss from 
