A single bed, both in the school and in the home, is indispensable to purity of morals and personal cleanliness. XXX Sending children to bed very early, to “get rid of them,” or confining them in a room by themselves, tends to encourage the development of vicious habits. If anything the sex precautions taken in infancy should be even more closely followed, as girls are by nature less robust than boys. Results of self-abuse in girls
Local diseases, due to this cause, result in girls as well as boys. One case reported in the United States was that of a female child who at birth possessed all the characteristics usually developed at puberty. In either case the proper remedies should be applied. Such conditions will lead her to rub and scratch these parts—never to be touched—for relief.
