SMALL-POX

is due to a germ not yet discovered. In. daily is most beneficial. Children should go to bed not | fection is spread both by contact with infected persons or later than seven o'clock, and they should have a good | clothing, and by the air. Few diseases spread their “romp” for half-an-hour or so before bed-time. Babies | infection by means of the air with such succe . Hence should sleep in cradles without rockers. To be rocked to | small-pox cannot be safely treated cithor at home or in the sleep is an acquired habit that is quite unnece ary, if not cab fever hospital; special hospitals far from town are harmful, as hospital experienco has abundantly proved. required. Ths age most liable to attack in the unvacei- SLEEP, [s. 410]